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The Gothic has contributed a distinctive style and atmosphere to Australian cinema since the 1970s. This book traces the appearance and interprets the meaning of key Gothic aspects of setting, landscape, characterisation and history in varied examples of Australian horror.

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In the nineteenth century, Cornwall was seen as a foreign nation on Englands doorstep and imagined as a haunted place, full of ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and legends. This book explores how Gothic authors drew on this to create a Cornish Gothic tradition.

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Financial Gothic offers three main critical perspectives: that finance can and should be understood as a gothic phenomenon; that contemporary American finance is a product the slave trade; and that American gothic monsters symbolise both the financial market and enslavement.

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The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker surveys the rise of the short tale of terror and horror at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

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Gothic literature is very popular today, and many places have become tourist attractions because they are either connected to Gothic fictions or because they generate new Gothic storytelling experiences. This book explores the socio-political significance of Gothic tourism in England.

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Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature.

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Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth century, discussing pressing questions of national identity and subjecthood, and emphasising the ethical value of listening to unsettling or distressing voices.

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Defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history and also within the context of the critical issues of American culture.

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Defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history and also within the context of the critical issues of American culture.

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The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was a form used to depict and critique the dangerous labour conditions faced by workers during the Industrial Revolution.

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This is the first collection of articles to analyse and theorise Gothic literature from the Middle East/North Africa region. It brings together nine chapters on diverse Gothic works in the major Middle Eastern languages Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish.

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Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppression. This book uses different critical theories to trace these narrative patterns in novels by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.

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This collection aims to resurrect the long-forgotten penny dreadfuls and revivify their significance in Gothic studies.

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This book demonstrates how Gothic literature experiments with and subverts Romantic medical debates to reassess the power of nonnormative bodies within medical, social and political spheres, and to reallocate narrative agency to bodies typically silenced.

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South Asian Gothic consists of chapters representing the diversity of the region, and a number of ways in which Gothic manifests in contemporary South Asian cultures.

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Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic, anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience.

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The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxieties, fears and concerns illustrated in the works of several post-World War II writers can be best understood through regional history and identity.