Overview
- Challenges modernism’s historicisation, reading it as an ongoing genre for writing about ‘modern’ moments
- Employs a dense inter-disciplinary approach to draw connections between a diverse range of scholarly fields.
- Engages with a range of theories about the grotesque to challenge misconceptions
Part of the book series: Palgrave Gothic (PAGO)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Grotesque Modernist Body 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
the 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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. David Alexander Johnson Cruickshank is an independent scholar who received his PhD from King’s College London in 2020, following an Oxford MSt and a BA at Queen Mary. His research promotes modernist bodies as a way to understand how colonial capitalism exploits our personal identity, converting socio-economic forces into horrible transformations of human into object, both for modernists then, and for our own modern moment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Grotesque Modernist Body
Book Subtitle: Gothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing
Authors: David Cruickshank
Series Title: Palgrave Gothic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54346-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54345-6Due: 31 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54348-7Due: 31 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54346-3Due: 31 May 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6214
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6222
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 262
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gothic Studies