This book reads the Gothic corpus with a thoroughly postmodern critical apparatus, pointing out that the Gothic Sublime anticipates our own doomed desire to pass beyond the hyperreal. A highly sophisticated theoretical reading of key texts of the Gothic, this book allows the reader to re-live the Gothic, not simply as a nostalgic relic or a pre-romantic aberration, but as a living presence that has strong resonances with the postmodern condition.
| ISBN: | 9780791417485 |
| Publication date: | 24th May 1994 |
| Author: | Vijay Mishra |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 342 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series on the Sublime |
| Genres: |
Biography: historical, political and military Political leaders and leadership |