The Utopian and the Gothic in Ellis James Davis’s ”Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under The Ice”

• Authors: Marta Komsta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses spatial modelling in Ellis James Davis’s Victorian utopia, Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under The Ice (1875) in the context of appropriating the Gothic mode into the utopian convention. In what follows, by examining selected aspects of the novella’s presented world, this article argues that the Gothic tropes of numinosity and sublime constitute significant elements of the examined narrative as major defamiliarizing components of the semiotically monolithic utopian spatial model.

DE

Der Artikel enthält Zusammenfassungen nur in Englisch.

FR

L'article contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

Keywords

EN

utopia; Gothic; sublime; numinous; space

DE

FR

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2019

online

2019-07-03

Contributors

author

Marta Komsta

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.2.31-39