"Gothic Modernisms" ed. by Andrew Smith, Jeff Wallace (Repost)
"Gothic Modernisms" ed. by Andrew Smith, Jeff Wallace (Repost)
Palgrave Macmillan | 2001 | ISBN: 0333918738 9780333918739 | 245 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Palgrave Macmillan | 2001 | ISBN: 0333918738 9780333918739 | 245 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The contributors explore how the Gothic influences a range of writers including James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, Elizabeth Bowen, and Djuna Barnes.
This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film.
Contents
Acknowledgements.
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Gothic Modernisms: History, Culture and Aesthetics
1 Hungry Ghosts and Foreign Bodies
2 The ‘Spectrality Effect’ in Early Modernism
3 ‘Psychical’ Cases: Transformations of the Supernatural in Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair7
4 The Ghost and the Omnibus: the Gothic Virginia Woolf
5 Strolling in the Dark: Gothic Flânerie in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
6 ‘Thick Within Our Hair’: Djuna Barnes’s Gothic Lovers
7 ‘The stern task of living’: Dubliners, Clerks, Money and Modernism
8 The Modernist Abominations of William Hope Hodgson
9 Vampirism, Masculinity and Degeneracy: D.H. Lawrence’s Modernist Gothic
10 Arctic Masks in a Castle of Ice: Gothic Vorticism and Wyndham Lewis’s Self Condemned
11 Metropolis and the Modernist Gothic
12 Hollywood Gothic/Gothic Hollywood: the Example of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard
Index
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