This book argues that the process and experience of travel in Gothic literature provides a unique and transformative perspective on the relationship between fear and recurring cultural preoccupations from the late eighteenth century to the present, ranging from concerns about climate change or the p...

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Hauptverfasser:	Armitt, Lucie 1962- (VerfasserIn), Brewster, Scott (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Anthem Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Anthem studies in gothic literature (Anthem Press)
Schlagworte:	Gothic fiction (Literary genre) / History and criticism Landscapes in literature Travel in literature Weather in literature Gothic novel Reiseliteratur Wetter > Motiv Landschaft > Motiv Englisch Schauerliteratur Reise > Motiv
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	This book argues that the process and experience of travel in Gothic literature provides a unique and transformative perspective on the relationship between fear and recurring cultural preoccupations from the late eighteenth century to the present, ranging from concerns about climate change or the presence of the unseen to the negotiation of cultural difference and the apprehension produced by various modes of modern transport and unknown/unknowable terrain. The book follows travellers who take many fictional forms - tourists, commuters, walkers, explorers, as well as the 'armchair tourist' or reader - as they encounter fascinating, strange and often disconcerting weathers, climates, landscapes and topographies. Gothic travel epitomises the wonder, excitement, suspicion or incomprehension that arises from journeys through familiar and unfamiliar terrain. While exposure to the wild, elemental or primitive could produce the elevation of the sublime in early Gothic, increasingly the experience of travel raised unsettling questions about people, places and environments that lay beyond established frames of knowledge. Gothic travellers are haunted, never alone, and the experience of journeying through these landscapes provokes fears that may shadow them even after they have returned to 'home' ground. The book reveals the persistent ways in which Gothic narratives of travel confront fears about the environment, surveillance, (im)migration and the foreign. These abiding concerns speak loudly to the present time, however, when the encroachments on our immediate surroundings - from climate change, digital communication and geopolitical dislocation - seem at once remote and intimate, invisible yet urgent. Thus the book also asks whether recent portrayals of Gothic journeys now pose different questions to the reader
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Apr 2024) Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Establishing Gothic Footfall -- Travel Versus Tourism -- Frissons and Chills -- Climates of Fear -- 1 Climate and the Elemental Gothic -- The Polar Uncanny -- Creeping Coastlines -- 2 Stopping Points and (Final Un-)Resting Places -- Wetland Burial -- Upland Burial -- Earthworks and Spectral Turbulence -- 3 At the Edge: Gothic Extremities in Britain and Ireland -- Irish Bogs and Ruins -- The Welsh Borders -- The Scottish Highlands and Islands -- 4 Walking Abroad: Ghosts and Landscape -- The Beaten Track -- Late Rambles -- Dead Men's Footsteps -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (ix, 184 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781839980220