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Lunar Gothicthe influence of the moon on the Gothic imagination /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Lunar Gothicedited by Elana Gomel, Simon Bacon.
其他題名:	the influence of the moon on the Gothic imagination /
其他作者:	Gomel, Elana.
出版者:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
面頁冊數:	xvii, 274 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Gothic fiction (Literary genre)History and criticism.
標題:	MoonMaps.
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92621-1
ISBN:	9783031926211$q(electronic bk.)

Lunar Gothicthe influence of the moon on the Gothic imagination /
Lunar Gothicthe influence of the moon on the Gothic imagination /[electronic resource] :edited by Elana Gomel, Simon Bacon. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xvii, 274 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave gothic,2634-6222. - Palgrave gothic..

Chapter 1: Introduction and Recommended Reading -- Chapter 2: "He looks not like the People of the lower Orb": Behn's The Emperor of the Moon as Proto-Lunar Gothic -- Chapter 3: Phases of the Moon in Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood -- Chapter 4: Satire, Science, and Skepticism: Viewing the Lunar Hoaxes of Edgar Allen Poe and Richard Adams Locke as Discourse on Uncertainty in the Antebellum Period -- Chapter 5: When the Full Moon Rises: Masculinities, Aging, and Updating the Lycanthropic Myth in Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf -- Chapter 6: "the terror of the rustics"; or, Witches and Werewolves: Lunar and ecoGothic Monstrosities in Catherine Crowe's "A Story of a Weir-Wolf" (1846) and The Nightside of Nature (1847) -- Chapter 7: Children of the Night's Light: The Moon as a Structuring Element of Vampire Fiction from Polidori's The Vampyre to The Twilight Saga -- Chapter 8: Crackle and Drag: Sylvia Plath's lunar Gothic in "The Moon and the Yew Tree," "The Rival" and "Edge." -- Chapter 9: Illuminating the Darkness: Lunar Representation in Children's Literature -- Chapter 10: The Lunar Poetics of Transformation in "The Yellow Wallpaper" -- Chapter 11: Lunacy: Anxieties on Modernity in Luigi Bazzoni's Footprints in the Moon -- Chapter 12: The Moon as Mirror in The Hungry Moon, Waking the Moon, and Moondial -- Chapter 13: Lunar Gothic and the Grotesque in Hushang Golshiri's "The wolf" -- Chapter 14: The Moon in Requiem for a Beast: An Apophasis of Colonial Transgression and Indigenous Suppression -- Chapter 15: Moon, Music, and Melancholia: Gothic Aesthetics in Kuroshitisuji's Lacrimosa -- Chapter 16: "Blood Moon": Lunar Monstrous Spaces in Gothic Science Fiction -- Chapter 17: Sterility Across Chasms: Dead Worlds and Technological Imaginations in Meredith Ann Pierces Darkangel Series.

This book explores the captivating intersection of lunar influence and the Gothic imagination, revealing how the moon has shaped narratives of horror, mystery, and transformation across cultures and media. Edited by Elana Gomel and Simon Bacon, this volume delves into the genre of Lunar Gothic, tracing its roots from ancient folklore to contemporary science fiction and horror. Readers will encounter a diverse array of essays that examine the moon's role as both a setting and a character in Gothic narratives. From the haunting presence of lunar deities and werewolves to the eerie landscapes of the moon in science fiction, this collection uncovers the moon's dual nature as a symbol of both enlightenment and terror. Contributors explore themes such as gender, identity, and the supernatural, offering fresh perspectives on the moon's enduring impact on the human psyche. A must-read for scholars and enthusiasts of the Gothic, science fiction, and cultural studies, this book invites readers to reconsider the moon's place in our collective imagination. Whether you are a researcher, student, or curious reader, Lunar Gothic offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking exploration of the moon's dark allure and its influence on storytelling across time and space. Elana Gomel is an associate professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a fiction writer. She has taught and researched at Princeton, Stanford, University of Hong Kong, and Venice International University. She is the author of six academic books and numerous articles on subjects such as narrative theory, posthumanism, science fiction, Dickens, and Victorian culture. She is author of Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (2003), Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature (2014) and Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule (2014), and the editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy (2022). Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland. He has written and edited 25+ books including Becoming Vampire (2017), The Gothic: A Reader (2018), Eco-vampires (2019), The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen (2 volumes, 2023), The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (2024), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (forthcoming).

ISBN: 9783031926211$q(electronic bk.)

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LC Class. No.: PN56.M58

Dewey Class. No.: 809.9336

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