The Gothic and the Everyday
Subtitle: Living Gothic
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 16, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781137406637
Description: Numerous dimensions of the Gothic are still under-explored. With this in mind, The Gothic and the Everyday aims to draw attention to one facet of the Gothic in particular: the Gothic in relation to lived experience. While the Gothic has been embodied in various cultural trends and behaviours, the broader idea of 'living Gothic', as a term encompassing histories, practices, and legacies, has yet to find a coherent definition and place. This book, then, serves to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition, and the idea of Gothic remains in contemporary life. By using the term 'living', the book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations. In this sense, 'living' also takes on multiple and multi-faceted connotations that resonate feelings of both finality and immortality, bygone experience, and future fantasy.
Notes: Source title: The Gothic and the Everyday: Living Gothic (Palgrave Gothic)