{"product_id":"9783031543487","title":"Palgrave Gothic: Gothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Gothic: Gothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eCruickshank, David\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Grotesque Modernist Body\u003c\/em\u003e explores how and why modernist authors drew on the traditions of the grotesque body in order to represent modern reality accurately. The author employs the concept of the grotesque body as a theoretical framework with which to examine rigorously a range of modernist novels, poems and visual media by Conrad, Lewis, Eliot and Barnes, alongside their historical contexts and theories of humour and horror. This monograph challenges the prevailing narrative of modernism’s abstract, psychological and impersonal ‘inward turn’ by tracing its mechanical-animal hybrid bodies back to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe medieval carnival satire of Rabelais, the gothic horror of the long nineteenth century, from Hoffmann, Shelley and Poe, to H.G. Wells and Henry James, and the uncanny, dreamlike art of Goya and Rousseau.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-04-28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031543487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-54346-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 262\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45383492567180,"sku":"9783031543487","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031543487.jpg?v=1776618970","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031543487","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}