The eternal wanderer : Christian negotiations in the Gothic mode / Mary Going.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Going, Mary, 1991- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Gothic, 2634-8721.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Gothic, 2634-8721

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wandering Jew.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (64 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. It argues that early Gothic writing conjured iterations of this figure that reimagine and revise him, adding Gothic layers to a popular Christian myth that refuses to die. Drawing on the work of Carol Margaret Davison, Lisa Lampert-Weissig and Galit Hasan-Roken and Alan Dundes, whose studies trace the myth's development across history, folklore and literature, this Element studies the figure as an antisemitic, palimpsestic Derridean spectre and establishes early Gothic writing as a significant development in his continued spectral existence. By reading the production of the Wandering Jew in conversation with his historical and theological contexts, and employing theoretical traditions of spectralisation according to Jacques Derrida and Steven F. Kruger, this Element provides a dedicated account of Gothic iterations of this figure and examines its alchemical, Faustian and theological figurations.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009174831

1009174835

9781009174848

1009174843

9781009151412

100915141X