Industrial gothic : workers, exploitation and urbanization in transatlantic nineteenth-century literature / / Bridget M. Marshall
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| Autore: |
Marshall Bridget <1974->
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| Titolo: |
Industrial gothic : workers, exploitation and urbanization in transatlantic nineteenth-century literature / / Bridget M. Marshall
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| Pubblicazione: | Cardiff, England : , : University of Wales Press, , [2021] |
| ©2021 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (290 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 823.0872909 |
| Soggetto topico: | Industrial revolution in literature |
| Industries in literature | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Weaving a Transatlantic Gothic Industrial History -- 1 The Industrial Gothic Novel -- 2 Industrializing the Gothic Victim/Heroine: Mill Girls and Factory Girls -- 3 The Carceral Gothic and the Cotton Industrial Complex -- 4 Old and New Industrial Horrors: Monsters and Disabled Bodies -- 5 The Industrial Environment: EcoGothic Horrors -- Epilogue Unravelling the Industrial Gothic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was a form used to depict and critique the dangerous labour conditions faced by workers during the Industrial Revolution. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Industrial gothic |
| ISBN: | 1-78683-771-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910794549003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Gothic literary studies.