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Comic gothic : an Edinburgh companion / edited by Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh companions to the Gothic : ECG
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic literature--History and criticism.
- Gothic literature.
- Satire, English--History and criticism.
- Satire, English.
- Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
- Horror tales, English.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 283 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Edinburgh companion
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other culturesRevisits classic Gothic figures such as the vampire, and foundational Gothic writers such as Horace Walpole, in order to examine the role of comedy in early formations of the GothicOffers fresh readings of classic and recent Gothic texts from different culturesOffers analyses of Comic Gothic in the visual domain, including film, television and social mediaBrings together important work on Comic Gothic in order to assess its place in the realms of culture, social interaction and politicsThe Edinburgh Companion to Comic Gothic explores the role of irony, satire, parody, pastiche and the absurd in Gothic texts dating from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Its particular focus on the use of Comic Gothic in social media and popular culture make it a distinctive and original contribution to Gothic studies that will be especially welcomed by undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Dread and Dark Laughter
- Part I From 1740 to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 1 The Satirical Gothic Vampire in England, 1740–1850
- Chapter 2 Cartoons and Comic Gothic in Early Nineteenth-Century Chapbooks
- Chapter 3 The Horror and Humour of Women’s Rights: Early Gothic Parody and Anti-Feminism
- Chapter 4 Poe’s Comedy: Carnival and Gothic Laughter
- Chapter 5 Dickens and the Comic Gothic
- Part II From the 1890s to the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 6 Oscar Wilde: Performing the Gothic
- Chapter 7 The Comic Gothic of Edith Wharton’s Witches
- Chapter 8 Rational Rickets and Reluctant Canadians: Gothic Colonial Cringe in Robertson Davies’s High Spirits
- Chapter 9 Laughter through Tears: A Jewish Perspective on the Comic Gothic
- Chapter 10 The Comic Gothic in Youth Literature: From the Explained Supernatural to the ‘Whimsical Macabre’
- Part III Comic Gothic and the New Millennium
- Chapter 11 Post-Apocalyptic Film and TV Capers: The Comedy Zombie, Capitalist Realism and the (End of the) Neoliberal World
- Chapter 12 Haunting Me, Haunting You: Gothic Parody and Melodrama in Thai Popular Horror
- Chapter 13 The ‘Inverse Uncanny’: Humour and Tim Burton’s Gothic Parodies
- Chapter 14 ‘Your Girlfriend is a Bloody Ghost!’: Indian Horror / Gothic Comedy Cinema
- Chapter 15 Rural Hauntings and Black Sheep: Comic Turns, Violence and Supernatural Echoes in New Zealand’s Gothic Comedy Films
- Chapter 16 ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’: Feminist Camp Gothic
- Chapter 17 Haunted TikTok: Comedy in Gothic Times
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jul 2024)
- ISBN:
- 1-3995-0576-9
- OCLC:
- 1441602772
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