1st Edition
Gothic Topographies Language, Nation Building and ‘Race’
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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In demonstrating the global reach of Gothic literatures, this collection takes up the influence of the Gothic mode in literatures that may be geographically remote from one another but still share related issues of minor languages, nation building, place and race. Suggesting that there is a parallel between certain motifs and themes found in the Gothic of the North (Scandinavia, Northern Europe... Read more
Introduction, P.M.Mehtonen, MattiSavolainen; Part 1 European Gothicisms In, Between and Through Languages; Chapter 1 Jan Potocki in the Intertextual Tradition of the Roman Anglais (the Gothic Novel), Hendrik vanGorp; Chapter 2 The Gothic Avant-Garde, P.M.Mehtonen; Chapter 3 Things as They’re Told, Bridget M.Marshall; Chapter 4 A Stranger in a Silent City, Pia LiviaHekanaho; Part 2 ‘Race’, Society and Power in a Global Perspective; Chapter 5 ‘To Thrill the Land with Horror’, Teresa A.Goddu; Chapter 6 Spectres of Apartheid, Jack W.Shear; Chapter 7 Out of the Shadows, Maureen Clark; Chapter 8 The International Vampire Boom and Post-Soviet Gothic Aesthetics, DinaKhapaeva; Part 3 The Challenge of the North; Chapter 9 The Devious Landscape in Contemporary Scandinavian Horror, YvonneLeffler; Chapter 10 The Aesthetics of Surface, Kirstine Kastbjerg; Chapter 11 From Italy to the Finnish Woods, KatiLaunis; Chapter 12 Gothic Liminality in A.J. Annila’s Film Sauna, Pasi Nyyssönen; Chapter 13 ‘Murderous Pleasures’, TomaszSikora; Chapter 14 The ‘New World’ Gothic Monster, Matti SavolainenChristos Angelis;
Biography
P.M. Mehtonen, Academy Research Fellow (Academy of Finland) School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, University of Tampere, Finland, and Matti Savolainen, Senior Lecturer, School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, University of Tampere, Finland.
’A wonderful collection, impressive in its internationalism and its careful attention to real and symbolic geographies. I do not know of any other collection that considers the Gothic as a global phenomenon in such detailed and rigorous ways.' Kelly Hurley, University of Colorado, Boulder ’...Mehtonen and Savolainen’s collection comprises a number of genre-defining and perceptive essays and as such marks important new interventions into particular Gothic literatures.’ Modern Language Review
