Gothic and the Comic Turn

by Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik

Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as dominant. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the present day, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity.

Genres: Gothic

214 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Lawrence · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unexpectedly unhelpful, given how foundational to the question of Gothic parody it apparently is. Perhaps I found it superficial because it was so uninterested in the early Gothic?