This collection analyzes a range of supernatural and science fiction works including literature, film, graphic novels, and trading card games from 1980-2010 and examines their engagement with the era{u2019}s dramatic changes in communication technology, medical science, and pers…
"Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. The juxtaposition between the everyday "frame world" of the story and the disturbing embedded narrative allows the monstrous to escape textual confines, forcing the reader to experien…
In The American Roman Noir, William Marling reads classic hard-boiled fiction and film in the contexts of narrative theories and American social and cultural history. His search for the origins of the dark narratives that emerged during the 1920s and 1930s leads to a sweeping cr…
This volume, the third in Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, reassesses neo-Victorianism as a quintessentially Gothic movement. Through their revival of bygone spectres, their obsession with forgotten skeletons in the cupboard, and their exploration of nineteenth-century extremities…
