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21st-century British gothicthe monstrous, spectral, and uncanny in contemporary fiction /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	21st-century British gothicEmily Horton.
Reminder of title:	the monstrous, spectral, and uncanny in contemporary fiction /
remainder title:	Twenty-first century British gothic
Author:	Horton, Emily.
Published:	London ;Bloomsbury Academic,2024.
Description:	1 online resource (262 p.)
Subject:	2000-2099
Subject:	Gothic fiction (Literary genre), EnglishHistory and criticism.21st century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350286597?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ISBN:	9781350286597$q(ebook)

21st-century British gothicthe monstrous, spectral, and uncanny in contemporary fiction /
Horton, Emily.

21st-century British gothicthe monstrous, spectral, and uncanny in contemporary fiction /[electronic resource] :Twenty-first century British gothicEmily Horton. - London ;Bloomsbury Academic,2024. - 1 online resource (262 p.)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-249) and index.

Introduction : 21st-century British gothic : the monstrous, spectral, and uncanny in contemporary Fiction -- Post-9/11 gothic : the uncanny and contemporary trauma in Pat Barker's Double vision and Patrick McGrath's Ghost town -- Decolonial gothic : tropical terrors and subterranean ghosts in Tash Aw's The harmony silk factory and Nadeem Aslam's The wasted vigil -- Gothic inheritance : imperial witchcraft and haunted houses in Helen Oyeyemi's White is for witching andSarah Waters' The little stranger -- Digital gothic : digital technology, migration, and the gothic in Hari Kunzru's Transmission and Mohsin Hamid's Exit west -- Gothic homelessness : spectral inhabitants and uncanny spaces in Ali Smith's Hotel world, Trezza Azzopardi's Remember me, and Brian Chikwava's Harare north -- The gothic city : uncanny spaces, historical spectres, and monstrous urbanity in Louise Welsh's The cutting room and Chloe Aridjis's Book of clouds -- Brexit gothic : spectral illusions and affect memories in Sarah Moss's Ghost wall and Niall Griffith's Broken ghost -- Pandemic gothic : childhood terror and monstrous illness in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro and M.R. Carey -- Wet gothic : ecofeminism and horror in Julie Armfield's Our wives under the sea, Daisy Johnson's Fen, and Zoe Gilbert's Folk.

"In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncannywork to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st century life. Reading contemporary works of Gothic fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Moss, Patrick McGrath and M.R. Carey alongside writers not previously grouped under this umbrella, such as Brian Chikwava, Chloe Aridjis and Mohsin Hamid, Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been engaged and reread by these contemporary writers to address the many cultural anxieties invoked living under neocolonial and neoliberal governance, including terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change. Marshalling new modes of diasporic and cross-disciplinary critical theory concerned with the violent dimensions of contemporary life, this book sets the Gothic aesthetics in such works as White is for Witching, Double Vision, Never Let Me Go, The Wasted Vigil and Ghost Wall against a backdrop of key events in the 21st century. Drawing connections between moments of anxiety, such as 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ecological disaster, the refugee crisis, Brexit, the pandemic, and the Gothic, Horton demonstrates how British literature mediates transnational experiences of trauma and horror,whilealso addressing local and national insecurities and preoccupations. As a result, 21st century British Gothic can be seen to test geographical, psychological, cultural, and aesthetic borders, as it seeks to expose an often spectralisedexperience of human and planetary vulnerability, and as it speaks back against the brutality of global capitalism"--

Emily Horton is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary world literature, specializing in trauma and affect theory, genre and popular fiction, and fictional explorations of globalization and transnationalism. Her monograph, 'Contemporary Crisis Fictions', was published in 2014, and she has also co-edited the following volumes: 'The 2010s: A Decade in Contemporary British Fiction', with Nick Bentley, Philip Tew and NickHubble (Bloomsbury, 2024); 'The 1980s: A Decade in Contemporary British Fiction', with Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson (Bloomsbury, 2014); and 'Ali Smith', with Monica Germanà (Bloomsbury, 2013).

ISBN: 9781350286597$q(ebook)Subjects--Chronological Terms:

2000-2099
Subjects--Topical Terms:

994143
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
--History and criticism.--21st centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR830.T3 / H68 2024eb

Dewey Class. No.: 813.0872909

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