Download e-book for kindle: Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of by Catherine Spooner

By Catherine Spooner

ISBN-10: 1441101217

ISBN-13: 9781441101211

ISBN-10: 144115390X

ISBN-13: 9781441153906

Surveying the common appropriations of the Gothic in modern literature and tradition, Post-Millennial Gothic indicates modern Gothic is frequently romantic, humorous and celebratory. analyzing quite a lot of well known texts, from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series via Tim Burton's Gothic movie diversifications of Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows, to the looks of Gothic in type, ads and tv, Catherine Spooner argues that traditional educational and media debts of Gothic tradition have missed this celebratory pressure of 'Happy Gothic'.

Identifying a shift in subcultural sensibilities following media assurance of the Columbine shootings, Spooner means that altering perceptions of Goth tradition have formed the improvement of 21st-century Gothic. analyzing those modern developments again into their resources, Spooner additionally explores how they serve to focus on formerly ignored strands of comedy and romance in past Gothic literature.

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