Alan Moore and the gothic tradition / Matthew J.A. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Matthew J. A., 1975- Author.

Contributor:

Green, Matthew J. A., 1975- editor.

Series:

Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England).

Manchester Gothic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moore, Alan, 1953---Criticism and interpretation.

Moore, Alan.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations (halftones, black & white); digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

These essays identify the Gothic tradition as the cultural context for understanding texts dealing explicitly with terror and horror and works expressing Moore's interest in magic and psychogeography. Core elements from Gothic aesthetics are evident in the structure and atmosphere of many of Moore's works. The socio-political dimensions of Moore's work are brought into focus through an appreciation of the Gothic's capacity to encompass both the sublime and the ridiculous.

Contents:

Part I: Monstrous politics 1. Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition Matthew J.A. Green 2. 'Soap opera of the paranormal': surreal Englishness and postimperial Gothic in The Bojeffries Saga Tony Venezia 3. A Gothic politics: Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and radical ecology Maggie Gray Part II: Gothic tropes 4. 'Is that you, our Jack?': An anatomy of Alan Moore's doubling strategies Jochen Ecke 5. 'Nothing ever ends': Facing the apocalypse in Watchmen Christian W. Schneider 6. Gothic Liminality in V for Vendetta Markus Oppolzer Part III: Inheritance and adaptation 7. 'The sleep of reason': Swamp Thing and the intertextual reader Michael Bradshaw 8. Madness and the City: The collapse of reason and sanity in Alan Moore's From Hell Monica Germanà 9. 'I fashioned a prison that you could not leave': The Gothic imperative in The Castle of Otranto and 'For the Man Who Has Everything' Brad Ricca 10. Radical coterie and the idea of sole survival in St Leon, Frankenstein and Watchmen Claire Sheridan 11. Reincarnating Mina Murray: Subverting the Gothic heroine? Laura Hilton Part IV: Art, magic, sex, other 12. 'These are not our Promised Resurrections': Unearthing the uncanny in Alan Moore's A Small Killing, From Hell, and A Disease of Language Christopher Murray 13. Medium, spirits and embodiment in Voice of the Fire Julia Round 14. A Darker Magic: Heterocosms and bricolage in Moore's recent reworkings of Lovecraft Matthew J. A. Green.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [276]-299) and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526101846

152610184X

9781526101839

1526101831

OCLC:

953030276