A Book of Monsters : Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1526195453
ISBN-13
9781526195456
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 20th, 2026
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
295 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 1.30 cms
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Art & design styles: Modernist design & BauhausHistory of artTheory of architectureLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersLiterary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersHorror & ghost storiesHorror, ghost stories and supernatural fictionTraditional or cultural fiction and true stories, tales and retellingsMyth & legend told as fictionPhilosophy: aestheticsCultural studiesCultural studiesPhilosophy: aesthetics
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This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of gothic fiction in the twentieth-century and examining post-modern revisions of Modernist “Promethean” tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. -- .
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist “Promethean” tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London’s churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers, or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling, and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious. -- .
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