Gothicka : Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural / Victoria Nelson.
Nelson, Victoria, author.
2012
PN3435 .N45 2012
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Title Gothicka : Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural / Victoria Nelson.
Author Nelson, Victoria, author.
ISBN 9780674065406
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065406
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 14 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674065406 doi
Call Number PN3435 .N45 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 700.415
Summary The Gothic, Romanticism's gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. In Gothicka, Victoria Nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken in the twenty-first. Today's Gothic has fashioned its monsters into heroes and its devils into angels. It is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture, not as an evil dimension divorced from ordinary human existence but as part of our daily lives. To explain this millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H. P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic-the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration. Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel. They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the West's premodern era. As Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pan's Labyrinth, Nelson argues that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
One. White Dog, the Pequel
Two. Faux Catholic
Three. Gothick Gods
Four. Decommissioning Satan
Five. Gothick Romance
Six. The Bright God Beckons
Seven. Postapocalyptic Gothick
Eight. The Gothick Theater of Halloween
Nine. The Ten Rules of Sitges
Ten. Cathedral Head
Eleven. The New Christian Gothick
Twelve. Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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