The Gothic. A Very Short Introduction.
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199586790
- ISBN10 0199586799
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 144
- Col.lecció Very Short Introductions #329
- Any Edició 2012
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Paperback
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Detalls del llibre
- Examines all aspects of the 'Gothic', including architecture, fiction, culture, literature, poetry, photography, and film
- Explores the historical meanings of the term and its origins
- Presents a rich and complex history that offers striking new ways of understanding and looking at modern culture and identity
- Considers the contemporary Gothic phenomenon
- Part of the best-selling Very Short Introductions series - over five million copies sold worldwide
This unique Very Short Introduction reveals that the Gothic has predominantly been a way of understanding and responding to the past. Time after time, the Gothic has been invoked in order to reveal what lies behind conventional history. It is a way of disclosing secrets, whether in the constitutional politics of seventeenth-century England or the racial politics of the United States. While contexts change, the Gothic perpetually regards the past with fascination, both yearning and horrified. It reminds us that neither societies nor individuals can escape the consequences of their actions.
The anatomy of the Gothic is richly complex and perversely contradictory, and so the thirteen chapters here range deliberately widely. This is the first time that the entire story of the Gothic has been written as a continuous history: from the historians of late antiquity to the gardens of Georgian England, from the mediaeval cult of the macabre to German Expressionist cinema, from Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy to American consumer society, from folk ballads to vampires, from the past to the present.
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