The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy by Michael Cameron
This Element explores the theme of 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. A liminal site of both possibility and irreconcilability, Gothic sympathy at once challenges the anthropocentric bias of traditional notions of sympathetic concern, premising compassionate relations with other beings - animal, vegetal, etc. - beyond the standard measure of the liberal-humanist subject, and at the same time acknowledges the horror that is the ineluctable and untranslatable otherness accompanying, interrupting, and shaping such a sympathetic connection. Many examples of 'Last Man' fiction explore the dialectical impasse of Gothic sympathy by dramatizing complicated relationships between a lone liberal-humanist subject and other-than-human or posthuman subjects that will persist beyond humanity's extinction. Such confrontations as they appear in Mary Shelley's The Last Man, H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend will be explored.-
Contemporary Body Horror
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Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
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African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter
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Folk Gothic
- Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age
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Contemporary Iranian Horror Cinema
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Vegetarian Gothic
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Gothic Dementia
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Disability and the Gothic
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Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830
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Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author
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The Music of the Gothic, 1789-1820
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The Eternal Wanderer
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Dickens and the Gothic
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Democracy and the American Gothic
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Gothic Voices
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Mary Robinson and the Gothic
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009357531 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009357530 |
| Title | The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy |
| Author | Michael Cameron |
| Series | Elements In The Gothic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2024-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 75 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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