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001 2007940409
003 DLC
005 20100917111804.0
008 071029s2008 mdua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007940409
020 $a9780801888656 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPR408.G68$bG63 2008
245 00 $aGothic and modernism :$bessaying dark literary modernity /$cedited by John Paul Riquelme.
260 $aBaltimore, MD :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2008.
300 $aviii, 236 p. :$bsome ill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aDark modernity from Mary Shelley to Samuel Beckett: gothic history, the gothic tradition, and modernism / John Paul Riquelme -- pt. 1. The 1890s -- Oscar Wilde's aesthetic gothic: Walter Pater, dark enlightenment, and The picture of Dorian Gray / John Paul Riquelme -- "Double born": Bram Stoker and the metrocolonial gothic / Joseph Valente -- Oxford's ghosts: Jude, the obscure and the end of the gothic / Patrick R. O'Malley -- pt. 2. Gothic popular forms -- Race, labor, and the gothic western: dispelling frontier myths in Dorothy Scarborough's The wind / Susan Kollin -- "I'm in the business too": gothic chivalry, private eyes, and proxy sex and violence in Chandler's The big sleep / Charles J. Rzepka -- Parodied to death: the postmodern gothic of American psycho / Ruth Helyer -- pt. 3. The gothic and language -- Reading rooms: M.R. James and the library of modernity / Penny Fielding -- "No more than ghosts make": the hauntology and gothic minimalism of Beckett's late work / Graham Fraser -- pt. 4. Gothic cultural transformations: technology, the posthuman, and total war -- From superhuman to posthuman: the gothic technological imaginary in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis / Theodora Goss and John Paul Riquelme -- Gothic temporality and total war: Collins, Conrad, and Woolf / Paul K. Saint-Amour.
500 $aEnd notes and bibliographical references conclude each chapter.
650 0 $aGothic revival (Literature)$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aRiquelme, John Paul.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007940409-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007940409-d.html