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Neoliberal Gothic

International Gothic in the Neoliberal Age

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet editor Linnie Blake editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:7th May '19

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The explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we know it. Neoliberal Gothic explores that world, considering the ways in which the exponential increase in the cultural visibility of the gothic attests to the mode's engagement with the most significant dynamics of our age. These include the triumph of free market economics, the revolution in information and communication technologies, the emergence of global biotechnologies, the increasing power of transnational corporations, the US-led 'War on Terror' and the global financial crisis of 2008.

Through analysis of texts drawn from literature, film, television, theatre and the visual arts (from Europe to South East Asia, Africa to North and South America) the collection examines the ways in which the representational strategies of the gothic mode are ideally suited to an exploration of the dark side of neoliberal enterprise.

'This collection of essays is an indispensable addition to twenty-first-century criticism on the Gothic, a criticism that is showing an increasing interest in texts created worldwide.’
Journal of the fantastic in the arts

ISBN: 9781526139467

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 13mm

Weight: 286g

224 pages