The Gothic in times of crisis

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Edited by John Whatley

Type: Essays
Subject: Sociology
Keywords: sociology, gothic
Publishing date: 2025 (December 02, 2025)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Collection: International Gothic Series
Language: English

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Paperback • 352 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5261-9172-4

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Book Presentation:
The Gothic in times of crisis reflects contemporary society, showing how the Gothic modes continually resets its own forms to encompass each new reality, each new apocalypse, each new plague or crisis. This collection expands oncurrent scholarship to show how the Gothic challenges our understanding of both older and recent crises and, in turn, disturbs all genre complacencies to expose and confront the problems and contradictions in what our world has been, has become, or is in danger of becoming. This collection explores Gothic’s current relevance to the contestations of ideas and the underlying and visible conflicts it dramatizes across a wide range of media. In various ways, it reveals what happens to Gothic modes now they confront the increasingly Gothic realities of our times, sometimesby recalling earlier crises and ideological contestations leading up to them.

About the Author:
John Whatley is a retired lecturer from the Simon Fraser University Department of English and a retired associate member of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He is currently managing editor of Simon Fraser University Publications.

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