Industrial Gothic : Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Gothic Literary Studies
ISBN-10
1786837706
ISBN-13
9781786837707
Publisher
University of Wales Press
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University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 15th, 2021
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
494 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.60 x 2.80 cms
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The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was a form used to depict and critique the dangerous labour conditions faced by workers during the Industrial Revolution.
An archival literary study positing the Industrial Revolution as a site of Gothic excess and horror.
Stories about the real horrors of factory life frequently employed the mode of the Gothic, while nineteenth-century Gothic literature began to use new settings—factories, mills, and industrial cities—as backdrops for the horrors that once populated Gothic castles. This study carves out the “Industrial Gothic” as a new area of study that places the literature of the Industrial Revolution in dialogue with the Gothic. The book explores a significant subset of transatlantic nineteenth-century literature that employs the tropes, themes, and rhetoric of the Gothic to portray the real-life horrors of factory life. Using archival materials, Bridget M. Marshall frames the Industrial Revolution as a site of Gothic excess and horror.
Stories about the real horrors of factory life frequently employed the mode of the Gothic, while nineteenth-century Gothic literature began to use new settings—factories, mills, and industrial cities—as backdrops for the horrors that once populated Gothic castles. This study carves out the “Industrial Gothic” as a new area of study that places the literature of the Industrial Revolution in dialogue with the Gothic. The book explores a significant subset of transatlantic nineteenth-century literature that employs the tropes, themes, and rhetoric of the Gothic to portray the real-life horrors of factory life. Using archival materials, Bridget M. Marshall frames the Industrial Revolution as a site of Gothic excess and horror.
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