This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist “Promethean” tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London’s churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, K...
Cuprins
1 The modern Prometheus: A brief introduction to the horror of Enlightenment
2 Architects of the Occult: London’s alternative “gothic” tradition
3 Gorillas in the House of...
Despre autor
David Ashford is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Groningen
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