Gothic and the Comic Turn

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Gothic and the Comic Turn is written by A. Horner and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230503071 (ISBN 10) and 9780230503076 (ISBN 13).

Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as dominant. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the present day, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity.