Body Gothic by Xavier Aldana Reyes
Ever since horror became wildly popular in the 1970s, journalists have warned against the dangers of increasingly explicit forms of violent entertainment. Xavier Aldana Reyes takes a different stance in Body Gothic, celebrating the transgressive qualities of this genre. Reyes considers relevant popular literary and filmic movements of the past three decades and reads them as updates in a long gothic tradition that goes back to the eighteenth century. Body Gothic contains case studies of key texts in splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn, and surgical horror.-
History of the Gothic: American Gothic
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824
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The Queer Uncanny
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914
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Welsh Gothic
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History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic
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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
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Theological Monsters
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Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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The Gothic Ideology
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Metamodern Gothic
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Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic
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Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism
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Servants and the Gothic, 1764-1831
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American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature
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South African Gothic
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Gothic Utterance
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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Posthuman Gothic
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Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
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The Twilight of the Gothic?
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The Fantastic and European Gothic
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Gothic Invasions
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Stephen King's Gothic
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The Gothic and Catholicism
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Republicanism and the American Gothic
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Shakespearean Gothic
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George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
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Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797-1830
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Gothic Metaphysics
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The Nature of the Beast
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Gothic Contemporaries
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Gothic Remains
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The Brontës as Gothic Writers
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The Gothic at War
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Gothic Metis
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Gothic Precarity
Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes is a Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. His work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as Gothic Studies, Horror Studies and The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783160921 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783160926 |
| Title | Body Gothic |
| Author | Xavier Aldana Reyes |
| Series | Gothic Literary Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2014-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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