The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature - Image 1

Price loading...

MACMILLAN The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature

Name: The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature
Brand: MACMILLAN

Literature & Fiction

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Product Description This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction. From the Back Cover This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction. About the Author Kevin Corstorphine is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. His work focuses on Gothic Studies, haunted space and place, the Ecogothic, and the study of popular fiction. Laura R. Kremmel is Assistant Professor of English at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, USA. Her work focuses on Gothic Studies, British Romanticism, Medical Humanities/History, Disability Studies, and Horror Film.

Product Specifications

Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: paperback
ASIN: 3030404366
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 February 2020
Listed Since: 01 January 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

MACMILLAN The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins

The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (Routledge Literature Companions)

Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (Routledge Literature Companions)

The Horror Film (Inside Film)

Reading in the Dark: Horror in Children's Literature and Culture (Children's Literature Association Series)

New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft

The Forest and the EcoGothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination (Palgrave Gothic)

The Forest and the EcoGothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination (Palgrave Gothic)

The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

The Politics of Horror

Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts: Twenty-First-Century Screen Horror and the Historical Imagination

Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre

Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination (Theology and Pop Culture) (Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture)

Springer Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

Charms, Charmers and Charming: International Research on Verbal Magic (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)

Fairytale and Gothic Horror: Uncanny Transformations in Film

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture

The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades

Gothic Hauntology: Everyday Hauntings and Epistemological Desire (Palgrave Gothic)

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender)

Darkness Calls: A Critical Investigation of Neo-Noir