The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film

by Jack Morgan

Book Overview

Unearthing the fearful flesh and sinful skins at the heart of gothic horror, Jack Morgan rends the genre's biological core from its oft-discussed psychological elements and argues for a more transhistorical conception of the gothic, one negatively related to comedy. The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film dissects popular examples from the gothic literary and cinematic canon, exposing the inverted comic paradigm within each text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809324717
• ISBN13: 9780809324712
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"