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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 January 2023
      09 February 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009162579
      9781009162562
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009162579
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      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.13kg, 74 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Elements in the Gothic
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    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
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    Elements in the Gothic
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    This Element provides new ways of reading the soundscape of the Gothic text. Drawing inspiration from the field of 'sonic Gothic' studies, which has been spearheaded by the writings of Isabella van Elferen, as well as from Mladen Dolar's articulation of the psychoanalytic 'object' voice, this study introduces the critical category of 'vococentric Gothic' into Gothic scholarship. In so doing, it reads important moments in Gothic fiction when the voice takes precedence as an uncanny, monstrous or seductive object. Historically informed, the range of readings proffered demonstrate the persistence of these vocal motifs across time (from the Gothic romance to contemporary Gothic) and across intermedia forms (from literature to film to podcasts). Gothic Voices, then, provides the first dedicated account of voices of terror and horror as they develop in the Gothic mode from the Romantic period until today.

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