{"product_id":"21st-century-british-gothic-the-monstrous-spectral-and-uncanny-in-contemporary-fiction-paperback","title":"21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Horton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st-century life\u003c\/b\u003e. Reading contemporary works of Gothic fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Moss, Patrick McGrath and M.R. Carey alongside writers not previously grouped under this umbrella, including Brian Chikwava, Chloe Aridjis and Mohsin Hamid, Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been engaged and reread by contemporary writers to address the cultural anxieties invoked living under neocolonial and neoliberal governance, including terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Marshalling new modes of diasporic and cross-disciplinary critical theory concerned with the violent dimensions of contemporary life, this book sets the Gothic aesthetics in such works as \u003ci\u003eWhite is for Witching, Double Vision, Never Let Me Go, The Wasted Vigil\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGhost Wall\u003c\/i\u003e against a backdrop of key events in the 21st-century. Drawing connections between moments of anxiety, such as 9\/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ecological disaster, the refugee crisis, Brexit, the pandemic, and the Gothic, Horton demonstrates how British literature mediates transnational experiences of trauma and horror, while also addressing local and national insecurities and preoccupations. As a result, \u003ci\u003e21st-Century British Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e can tests geographical, psychological, cultural, and aesthetic borders to expose an often spectralised experience of human and planetary vulnerability and speaks back against the brutality of global capitalism.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Horton\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University, UK. She is author of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Crisis Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2013), \u003ci\u003eThe 1980s: A Decade in Contemporary British Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, (Bloomsbury, 2014)\u003ci\u003eThe 2010s: A Decade in Contemporary British Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42437663424592,"sku":"9781350286603","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/t6yZrMumjH9781350286603.webp?v=1780761138","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/21st-century-british-gothic-the-monstrous-spectral-and-uncanny-in-contemporary-fiction-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}