Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature

By Bridget M. Marshall

An archival literary study positing the Industrial Revolution as a site of Gothic excess and horror.

Stories about the real horrors of factory life frequently employed the mode of the Gothic, while nineteenth-century Gothic literature began to use new settings--factories, mills, and industrial cities--as backdrops for the horrors that once populated Gothic castles. This study carves out the "Industrial Gothic" as a new area of study that places the literature of the Industrial Revolution in dialogue with the Gothic. The book explores a significant subset of transatlantic nineteenth-century literature that employs the tropes, themes, and rhetoric of the Gothic to portray the real-life horrors of factory life. Using archival materials, Bridget M. Marshall frames the Industrial Revolution as a site of Gothic excess and horror.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786837706
• ISBN13: 9781786837707
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"