History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic by Lucie Armitt

History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic by Lucie Armitt

This book covers Gothic writing and film from Henry James to Sarah Waters. Among its primary themes are the role of the ghost in relation to childhood and cultural mourning, the relationship between Gothic Architecture and the 'landscapes' of dream and nightmare and the interface between Gothic and Horror modes of writing.

"The great strength of this excellent book is that it is not a straightforward tour through the canonical works of the twentieth-century GothicIt is much more interesting than that. Armitt takes the reader on a devious, elliptical, fascinating journey through a range of strange texts, some well-known and others unjustifiably less so, combining critical inventiveness and precision with a constant undertow of reference to major cultural and social preoccupations--child abuse, trauma, aftermaths of war, sexual uncertainty and transgression--which both illumine the texts and are in turn illumined, through a specifically distorted Gothic lens, by them."--David Punter, University of Bristol

Dr Lucie Armitt is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at University of Salford, where she is also Director of the Research Centre for English Literature and English Language. She has published widely in her field for Palgrave/Macmillan, Routledge and Continuum.

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ISBN 13	9780708320433
ISBN 10	0708320430
Title	History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic
Author	Lucie Armitt
Series	Gothic Literary Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Wales Press
Year published	2009-09-01
Number of pages	193
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