212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

The new edition of the bestselling Grotesque offers an accessible introduction to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical... Read more

1: Grotesquerie; 2: Groteskology; or, Grotesque in Theory; 3: Monstrous and Grotesque; 4: Grotesque Bodies; 5: Discord and Transgression; 6: Attraction/Repulsion; 7: Laughter and Grotesque; 8: Queerly Grotesque; 9: Postcolonial Grotesque; 10: Planetary Grotesque; Coda: Weird Grotesque; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Biography

Justin D. Edwards (1970–2023) was chair of Gothic Studies at the University of Stirling, UK, and co-president of the International Gothic Association. He published widely on horror and on gothic, including Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (2003), Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (2005) and the co-edited anthology Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (2022).

Rune Graulund is Associate Professor in American Literature and Culture at the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. In addition to the co-edited anthology Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (2022), he has published widely on gothic, the New Weird, science fiction, cli-fi and grotesque.