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    21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction

    Posted By: arundhati
    Date: 4 Dec 2023 00:06:12
    21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction

    Emily Horton, "21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction"
    English | ISBN: 1350286567 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 624 KB + 7 MB

    In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st-century life. Reading contemporary works of Gothic fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Moss, Patrick McGrath and M.R. Carey alongside writers not previously grouped under this umbrella, including Brian Chikwava, Chloe Aridjis and Mohsin Hamid, Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been engaged and reread by contemporary writers to address the cultural anxieties invoked living under neocolonial and neoliberal governance, including terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change.

    Marshalling new modes of diasporic and cross-disciplinary critical theory concerned with the violent dimensions of contemporary life, this book sets the Gothic aesthetics in such works as
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