Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past

204 Pages·2020·10.359 MB·English

by  Sarah E. Maier (editor), Brenda Ayres (editor)

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Neo-Gothic Narratives
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Neo-Gothic Narratives

Illusory Allusions from the Past
Edited by
Sarah E. Maier and Brenda Ayres
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Anthem Press
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This edition first published in UK and USA 2020
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ISBN- 13: 978- 1- 78527- 217- 2 (Hbk)
ISBN- 10: 1- 78527- 217- 9 (Hbk)
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Dedicated to those readers who love to feel their hair standing up on the back of their necks
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction Neo- Gothicism: Persistent Haunting of the Past
and Horrors Anew 1
Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier
Chapter One “Through a glass darkly”: The Gothic Trace 13
Brenda Ayres
Chapter Two Dark Descen(den)ts: Neo- Gothic Monstrosity and
the Women of Frankenstein 23
Sarah E. Maier
Chapter Three Theorising Race, Slavery and the New Imperial
Gothic in Neo- Victorian Returns to Wuthering Heights 41
Carol Margaret Davison
Chapter Four Toxic Neo- Gothic Masculinity: Mr. Hyde, Tyler Durden
and Donald J. Trump as Angry White men 57
Martin Danahay
Chapter Five Shadows of the Vampire: Neo-Gothicism in Dracula,
Ripper Street and What We Do in the Shadows 75
Jamil Mustafa
Chapter Six “Here we are, again! ”: Neo-Gothic Narratives of
Textual Haunting, from Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno
and the Limehouse Golem to The Limehouse Golem 91
Ashleigh Prosser
Chapter Seven Spectral Females, Spectral Males: Coloniality and
Gender in Neo- Gothic Australian novels 109
Kate Livett
Chapter Eight “We Are all humans”: Self-A ware Zombies and
Neo- Gothic Posthumanism 125
Karen E. Macfarlane
Chapter Nine Neo- Gothic Dinosaurs and the Haunting of History 141
Jessica Gildersleeve and Nike Sulway
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Chapter Ten Doctor Who’s Shaken Faith in Science: Mistrusting Science
from the Gothic to the Neo- Gothic 155
Geremy Carnes
Chapter Eleven The Devil’s in It: The Bible as Gothic 169
Brenda Ayres
Notes on Contributors 187
Index 189