By David Punter
ISBN-10: 1783168218
ISBN-13: 9781783168217
This booklet brings jointly fourteen of the main formidable and thought-provoking fresh essays through David Punter, who has been writing at the Gothic to educational and normal approval for over thirty years. Punter addresses advancements in Gothic writing and Gothic feedback because the mid-eighteenth century, by means of setting apart and discussing particular issues and eventualities that experience remained appropriate to literary and philosophical dialogue over the many years and centuries, and likewise by way of paying shut cognizance to the motifs, figures and recurrences that loom so huge in twenty-first-century engagements with the Gothic. This e-book, whereas attractive deeply with Gothic background, always addresses our carrying on with fast encounters with Gothic tropes – the vampire, the zombie, the phantom, the residing dead.
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