Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 by Jimmy Packham

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 by Jimmy Packham

Littoral zones such as haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been an indelible feature of the Gothic literary tradition since the eighteenth century. They are frequently portrayed as strange, interstitial realms, sites of epistemic and existential precarity, of wreckage and uncanny returns, poised between the homely and unhomely, whose intense openness to the world(s) beyond contend uneasily (yet valuably) with the imagined integrity of selves and nations: it is a region, above all, of unsettlement. Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 offers the first long-form examination of the coastal Gothic. Focusing on British and Irish Gothic authors and on the fraught political and human histories of the coastline, this Element examines the function of littoral terror, hauntings, and uncanny encounters as a means of unsettling pervasive conceptions of identity at national, regional, and individual levels.

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ISBN 13	9781009433754
ISBN 10	100943375X
Title	Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Author	Jimmy Packham
Series	Elements In The Gothic
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2025-12-31
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