222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Theory; Chapter 2 The Fantastic as a Mode; Chapter 3 Psychoanalytical Perspectives; Part 2 Texts; Chapter 4 Gothic Tales and Novels; Chapter 5 Fantastic Realism; Chapter 6 Victorian Fantasies; Chapter 7 From Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ to Pynchon’s ‘Entropy’; Chapter 8 Afterword: The ‘Unseen’ of Culture;

Biography

Rosemary Jackson