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Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions

Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions

Becker, Susanne

Paperback

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0719053315
ISBN13: 9780719053313
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Mar 1 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.94
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement.

Today's globalised entertainment culture, relying on soaps, reality TV shows, celebrity and excess, is reflected in the emotional trajectory of the Gothic's violence, eroticism and sentimental excess.

Gothic forms of feminine fictions discusses a wide range of anglophone Gothic romances, from the classics through pulp fictions to a postmodern Gothica. This timely and original study is a major contribution to gender and genre theory as well as cultural criticism of the contemporary. It will appeal to scholars in a wide range of fields and become essential for students of the Gothic, contemporary fiction - particularly Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood - and popular culture.

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