Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics - Paperback

by Justin D. Edwards (Editor)

This book reflects on how recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies associated with Gothic literary and cultural production. Essays explore the links between technologies and the proliferation of the Gothic in a range of texts and tropes, such as the machinery of Steampunk or the corporeal modifications of Edward Scissor

Author Biography

Justin D. Edwards is Professor of English at the University of Surrey. He has taught at the universities of Wales, Copenhagen, Montreal and Quebec. Among his books are Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (2003), Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (2005), Grotesque (with Rune Graulund, 2013), as well as coeditor (with Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet) of Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: Pop Goth (2012).