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Gothic Science

Author : Joel Levy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233005874
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Science written by Joel Levy and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was conceived against the backdrop of rapid change in the scientific world. And the science that inspired it is almost as strange as the novel itself. Shelley grew up surrounded by several of Europe's prominent scientific thinkers and was familiar with experimentation into reanimation of corpses as well as the heated debate over "the elixir of life". She was a frequent visitor to St Bart's operating theatre, where spectators witnessed surgery performed without anaesthetic. Her monster was born in an era of bodysnatching, dissections and the philosophy of Vitalism. This book offers an engrossing insight into the world of science in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Europe, through the prism of the seminal science fiction novel. Illustrated with line drawings and colour plates, it reveals how the monster was conceived, suggests the real-life basis for Victor Frankenstein and describes in vivid detail the experiments that might have led to the Creature's birth. It also looks at incarnations of the monster since the book was published and modern interpretations of the "mad scientist", as well as looking ahead to permanent bionic limbs, implants and other wonders.

Science Fiction Short Stories

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786645106
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction Short Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Author and collections. A deluxe edition of super-charged, original and classic short stories. Dystopia, Post-Apocalypse, time travel, robots and more this brilliant collection brings together the best of today's writers (many stories previously unpublished), with an eclectic range of science fiction masters including H. Rider Haggard, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip Frances Nowlan, Edward Page Mitchell and Jack London. An eclectic collection of SF adventure tales.

Gothic Science Fiction

Author : S. MacArthur
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137389273
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Science Fiction written by S. MacArthur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Science Fiction explores the fascinating world of gothic influenced science fiction. From Frankenstein to Doctor Who and from H. G Wells to Stephen King, the book charts the rise of a genre and follows the descent into darkness that consumes it.

Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010

Author : Sara Wasson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 184631707X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 written by Sara Wasson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic fiction's focus on the irrational and supernatural would seem to conflict with science fiction's rational foundations. However, as this novel collection demonstrates, the two categories often intersect in rich and revealing ways. Analyzing a range of works—including literature, film, graphic novels, and trading card games—from the past three decades through the lens of this hybrid genre, this volume examines their engagement with the era's dramatic changes in communication technology, medical science, and personal and global politics.

Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic

Author : David Oakes
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic written by David Oakes and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writers of Gothic literature reflect in their works the concerns and fears of the times in which they were created, not only making these tales cultural artifacts of a previous time, but also showing how some sources of dread remain constant over the passage of centuries. This book examines how H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, and Stephen King have used science and technology in their modern Gothic works to destabilize the reader; that is, to create the sense of fear and dread at the heart of the Gothic genre. In doing so, these works force readers to ask disturbing questions about the society around them and to challenge long-accepted notions and belief systems.

The Late Victorian Gothic

Author : Hilary Grimes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409427218
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Late Victorian Gothic written by Hilary Grimes and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist séances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. Hilary Grimes shows that both new technology and explorations into the ghostly aspects of the mind made agency problematic. When notions of agency are suspended, Grimes argues, authorship itself becomes uncanny. Grimes's study is distinct in both recognizing and crossing strict boundaries to suggest that Gothic literature itself resists categorization, not only between literary periods, but also between genres. Treating a wide range of authors - Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Du Maurier, Vernon Lee, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sarah Grand, and George Paston - Grimes shows how fin-de-siècle works negotiate themes associated with the Victorian and Modernist periods such as psychical research, mass marketing, and new technologies. With particular attention to texts that are not placed within the Gothic genre, but which nevertheless conceal Gothic themes, The Late Victorian Gothic demonstrates that the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.

Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel

Author : Diana Pérez Edelman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030736482
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel written by Diana Pérez Edelman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole’s use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity, monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapters analyze Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto; Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance, The Italian, and The Mysteries of Udolpho; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer; and James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner, arguing that these touchstones of the Gothic register why the Gothic emerged at that time and why it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction remain unsolved.

Transplantation Gothic

Author : Sara Wasson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526132885
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Transplantation Gothic written by Sara Wasson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the nineteenth-century to the present. The works explore the experience of donor/suppliers, recipients and practitioners, and simultaneously express transfer-related suffering and are complicit in its erasure. Examining texts from Europe, North America and India, the book resists exoticising predatorial tissue economies and considers fantasies of harvest as both product and symbol of structural ruination under neoliberal capitalism. In their efforts to articulate bioengineered hybridity, these works are not only anxious but speculative. The book will be of interest to academics and students researching Gothic studies, science fiction, critical medical humanities and cultural studies of transplantation.

Gothic High-tech

Author : Bruce Sterling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596064041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Gothic High-tech written by Bruce Sterling and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FUTURE IS A KIND OF HISTORY THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET He's the legendary Cyberpunk Guru. He roams our postmodern planet, from the polychrome tinsel of Los Angeles to the chicken-fried cyberculture of Austin... From the heretical Communist slums of gritty Belgrade to the Gothic industrial castles of artsy Torino... always whipping that slider-bar between the unthinkable and the unimaginable. He's a Californian design visionary. He's an European electronic-art curator. He's a Swiss professor of media philosophy. He's a Prophet of Augmented Reality, even. He's an author, journalist, editor, critic, theorist, futurist, and blogger. Obviously he's pretty much anything that he can get his hands on. And he never stops typing. This sixth collection of his fantastic stories is a comic arsenal of dark euphoria. It's even weirder, harsher and more twisted than the scary decade that inspired it. Boy, that's saying something. If there's one thing dear to the heart of this exotic character, one vital prize he will never, ever surrender, one stony core to his mutable, globalized being, it's his fanatical allegiance to the radical potential of science fiction. That is the truth. Really. That is one hundred percent accurate. You could look that up on Wikipedia. Just like some far-fetched, globe-trotting antihero from one of his own unsettling, yet darkly prophetic novels, he is... Actually, never mind who he is. Does that matter? Is that an issue for us, really? You know what? We're all done here. Turn the page. We need to pretty much move right along.

The Gothic Peckinpah

Author : Tony Williams
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1835532802
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Gothic Peckinpah written by Tony Williams and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the importance of Gothic in understanding one of the key elements within the films of Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984). Although occasionally noted in the past, the Gothic has been generally overlooked when most critics consider the work of Sam Peckinpah with the exception of the Freudian based Crucified Heroes (1979) by Terence Butler. This work not only examines the films made after that date, especially the often dismissed The Osterman Weekend (1983) and the two music videos he made for Julian Lennon, but also places the director within the context of the developing work on Gothic that has since appeared. Peckinpah has been identified as the director of one undisputed masterpiece, The Wild Bunch (1969). By focussing on the key role Gothic plays in most of the director’s work, this book offers a way to see Peckinpah beyond The Wild Bunch and the Western, viewing him as a director who had the potential of evolving further, had circumstances permitted, to continue his critique of American life within the developing lens of the Gothic.

Post-Apartheid Gothic

Author : Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683932463
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Post-Apartheid Gothic written by Mélanie Joseph-Vilain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space is at the crossroads between Gothic studies and postcolonial studies. The author analyses the way in which diverse spaces – the home, the landscape, the city – are represented in recent works by white South African writers, assessing their literary, ethical, and political implications.

Neo-Gothic Narratives

Author : Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785272187
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Gothic Narratives written by Sarah E. Maier and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether there is room for humour besides the sobriety and horror in these narratives across various media. What attracts us to the Gothic that makes us want to resurrect, reinvent, echo it? Why do we let the Gothic redefine us? Why do we let it haunt us? Does it speak to us through intertexuality, self-reflectivity, metafiction, immersion, affect? Are we reclaiming the history of women and other subalterns in the Gothic that had been denied in other forms of history? Are we revisiting the trauma of English colonisation and seeking national identity? Or are we simply tourists who enjoy cruising through the otherworld? The essays in this volume investigate both the readerly experience of Neo-Gothic narratives as well as their writerly pastiche.

Gothic Film

Author : Hand Richard J. Hand
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474448062
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Film written by Hand Richard J. Hand and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the presentOffers essays exploring Gothic film in the widest possible range of contextsExtends the field of Gothic film by spanning diverse historical periods, international contexts and (sub)genresStructured into 3 sections on History, Traditions and AdaptationsProvides major new appraisals of key works alongside neglected topicsThis anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad ways that filmmakers mobilise Gothic conceits across multiple film genres and in conjunction with several significant film styles. In the process, the book contributes exciting new readings of canonical works of Gothic cinema as well as important new critical examinations of emerging horror subgenres.

The Handbook to Gothic Literature

Author : Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349264962
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook to Gothic Literature written by Marie Mulvey-Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-05-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by the term 'Gothic'? How does it differ from such classifications as 'terror' and 'horror' and where do its parameters lie? In an attempt to define such an elusive term, this A-Z unearths the terminologies associated with Gothic through a variety of short essays written by leading scholars. Not only does it plot the national characteristics of Gothic as in the French school of terror, Frenetique to American Gothic, but it also spans the period from Ann Radcliffe to Anne Rice.

Gothic Heroines on Screen

Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351779370
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Heroines on Screen written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Heroines on Screen explores the translation of the literary Gothic heroine on screen, the potential consequences of these adaptations, and contemporary interpretations of the form. Each chapter illuminates the significance of this moving image mediation, relating its screen topics to their various historical, social, and geographical moments of production, while maintaining a focus on the key figure of the investigating woman. Many chapters – perhaps inescapably – delve into the point of adaptation: the Bluebeard story and du Maurier’s Rebecca as two key examples. Moving beyond the Old Dark House that frequently forms both the Gothic heroine’s backdrop and her area of investigation, some chapters examine alternative locations and their impact on the Gothic heroine, some leave behind the marital thriller to explore what happens when the Gothic meets other genres, such as comedy, while others travel away from the usual Anglo-American contexts to European ones. Throughout the collection, the Gothic heroine’s representation is explored within the medium, which brings together image, movement, and sound, and this technological fact takes on varied significance. What does remain constant, however, is the emphasis on the longevity, significance, and distinctiveness of the Gothic heroine in screen culture.

The Gothic

Author : Fred Botting
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859916196
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Gothic written by Fred Botting and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays reexamine the literary, historical and cultural significance of the Gothic. Examples range from Horace Walpole to Angela Carter and the modern television programme, The X-Files, as well as new and more familiar texts.

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

Author : David Punter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119210461
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Gothic written by David Punter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GOTHIC “Well written and interesting [it is] a testament to the breadth and depth of knowledge about its central subject among the more than 130 contributing writers, and also among the three editors, each of whom is a significant figure in the field of gothic studies ... A reference work that’s firmly rooted in and actively devoted to expressing the current state of academic scholarship about its area.” New York Journal of Books “A substantial achievement.” Reference Reviews Comprehensive and wide-ranging, The Encyclopedia of the Gothic brings together over 200 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars writing on all aspects of the Gothic as it is currently taught and researched, along with challenging insights into the development of the genre and its impact on contemporary culture. The A-Z entries provide comprehensive coverage of relevant authors, national traditions, critical developments, and notable texts that continue to define, shape, and inform the genre. The volume’s approach is truly interdisciplinary, with essays by specialist international contributors whose expertise extends beyond Gothic literature to film, music, drama, art, and architecture. From Angels and American Gothic to Wilde and Witchcraft, The Encyclopedia of the Gothic is the definitive reference guide to all aspects of this strange and wondrous genre. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature is a comprehensive, scholarly, authoritative, and critical overview of literature and theory comprising individual titles covering key literary genres, periods, and sub-disciplines. Available both in print and online, this groundbreaking resource provides students, teachers, and researchers with cutting-edge scholarship in literature and literary studies.