Italian Gothic by Marco Malvestio

Italian Gothic by Marco Malvestio

This companion constitutes the first, systematic theorisation of the Italian Gothic. Through an interdisciplinary, trans-medial approach that encompasses prose fiction, poetry, journalism, film, music, and comics, it explores the varied and complex metamorphoses of the Gothic in Italy from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Although the last thirty years have seen a burgeoning in the academic study of the Gothic at college and university levels and in related publications, scholars have long struggled to even acknowledge the very existence of this mode in the Italian context. This companion does not only fill in a historical and critical gap in the scholarship, but it also contributes to revitalising the field of Gothic Studies, opening new channels of communication, and paving the way to the exploration of the fruitful interchanges between Italian and other European and American configurations of the Gothic.

Marco Malvestio is EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua. His project, “EcoSF – The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction”, conducted in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explores the presence of ecological issues in Italian science fiction. He published The Conflict Revisited: The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction (Peter Lang, 2021) and Raccontare la fine del mondo. Fantascienza e Antropocene (nottetempo, 2021). Stefano Serafini holds a PhD in comparative literature and cultures from Royal Holloway, University of London. He was postdoctoral fellow in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. He is Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. His contributions have appeared in journals such as Italian Studies, The Italianist, Quaderni del 900, Transalpina, Clues: A Journal of Detection and the Revue des littératures européennes.

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ISBN 13	9781474490177
ISBN 10	1474490174
Title	Italian Gothic
Author	Marco Malvestio
Series	Edinburgh Companions To The Gothic
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Year published	2024-11-30
Number of pages	264
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