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The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature

by Rebecca Duncan , Rebekah Cumpsty
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781009382564
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 318
  • Original Price: GBP 25.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 427 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Monsters have always swarmed around the frontiers of colonialism and capitalism, from Europe's invasion and occupation of the Americas to the planetary emergency of the present day. In this volume, we discover how the early British Gothic - far from a progenitor - is in fact a belated cultural response to capitalist modernity, one anticipated by myriad spectres haunting the plantations of the 'New World'. Gothic did not begin in Britain, and then become global over time. Rather, as the volume reveals, gothic has always been world-gothic: a way of dealing with the alienation and anxiety that erupt with capitalist modernisation, when- and wherever this is taking place. Essays in the volume chart the new links and comparisons enabled by this insight, renovating established gothic concepts and outlining groundbreaking new theoretical infrastructure. Together, chapters provincialise the 'western' gothic tradition, in order to open up new possibilities for world-gothic reading.

Cumpsty, Rebekah: - Rebekah Cumpsty is Associate Professor of Anglophone World Literature at Weber State University. She is the author of Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction (2022). Her research interests include religious studies and the postsecular, postcolonial and world literatures, with a focus on anglophone African fiction. Her recent publications have appeared in Gothic Studies, The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (2023) and Contemporary Literature and the Body (2023).

Duncan, Rebecca: - Rebecca Duncan is Associate Professor in Literature at Linnaeus University and Research Associate in English at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her recent publications include the edited volume The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (2023), which won both the Justin D. Edwards Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award in 2024.

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