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Title
Gothic Things : Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety.
ISBN
9781531503444
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (240 p.) : 24 b&w illustrations
Item Number
10.1515/9781531503444 doi
Call Number
PN3435 .W45 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.3/8729
Summary
Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on "ominous matter" and "thing power." In chapters attending to gothic bodies, spaces, books, and other objects, Gothic Things argues that the Gothic has always been about what happens when objects assume mysterious animacy or potency and when human beings are reduced to the status of just one thing among many - more powerful - others. In exploring how the Gothic insistently decenters the human, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock reveals human beings to be enmeshed in networks of human and nonhuman forces mostly outside of their control. Gothic Things thus resituates the Gothic as the uncanny doppelganger of twenty-first century critical and cultural theory, lurking just beneath the surface (and sometimes explicitly surfacing) as it haunts considerations of how human beings interact with objects and their environment. In these pages the Gothic offers a dark reflection of the contemporary "nonhuman turn," expressing a twenty-first-century structure of feeling undergirded by anxiety over the fate of the human: spectrality, monstrosity, and apocalypse. Substituting horror for hope, the Gothic, Weinstock explains, has been a philosophical meditation on human relations to the nonhuman since its inception, raising significant questions about how we can counter anthropocentric thought in our quest to live more harmoniously with the world around us.
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EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 English
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface: Three Beginnings
Introduction: Ominous Matter
1 Gothic Thing Theory
2 Dark Enchantment and Gothic Materialism
3 Body-as- Thing
4 Thing-as- Body
5 Book: How to Do Things with Words
6 Building: Bigger on the Inside
Epilogue: The Ominous Matter of One's Ordinary Life
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index
Contents
Preface: Three Beginnings
Introduction: Ominous Matter
1 Gothic Thing Theory
2 Dark Enchantment and Gothic Materialism
3 Body-as- Thing
4 Thing-as- Body
5 Book: How to Do Things with Words
6 Building: Bigger on the Inside
Epilogue: The Ominous Matter of One's Ordinary Life
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index