Historicising the Gothic Other

• Authors: Braid, Barbara

Abstracts

EN

The following review discusses the recent book by Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (Manchester UP, 2016), which offers a historical perspective on gothic literary and cultural texts. In the book, Mulvey-Roberts examines how gothic fiction represents the bodies of the Other – the Catholic, the slave, the woman, the Jew, and so on – on which the history cannibalistically feeds itself; a meticulous historical research allows her to shed new light on both canonical as well as more marginal gothic texts. This review offers an overview and a brief comment on this significant addition to gothic studies.

Keywords

EN

Keywords: gothic body; the Other; historical approach; Mulvey-Roberts Słowa kluczowe: gotyckie ciało; Inny; badania historyczne; Mulvey-Roberts

• Publisher: Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej, Instytut Teologiczny im. Jana Kantego w Bielsku-Białej, Książnica Beskidzka
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 32(1)
• Pages: 153-158

Dates

published

2020-11-02

Contributors

author

Braid, Barbara

Identifiers

DOI

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2617093