The Gothic and the Everyday: Living GothicL. Piatti-Farnell, M. Beville The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition. By using the term 'living', this book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations |
Contents
Empire and Its Others | |
Framing Terror | |
Peter Ackroyds Gothic Historiographyof London | |
Part IILegend Folklore and Tradition | |
La Llorona Popular Culture and the Spectral Anxiety | |
Tracy Fahey PartIII Gothic Remains | |
Writing the Haunted History of Last Meals | |
12Haunting and the Impossibility ofMāori Gothic | |
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