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Autore: | Marshall Bridget <1974-> |
Titolo: | Industrial gothic : workers, exploitation and urbanization in transatlantic nineteenth-century literature / / Bridget M. Marshall |
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.: | 9910806992903321 |
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