War gothic in literature and culture / edited by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet and Steffen Hantke.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik (Editor), Hantke, Steffen, 1962- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 58.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ghosts from the battlefields: a short historical introduction to the war gothic / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnett and Steffen Hantke
  • "The red thirst is on this nation": vampiric hauntings and the American Civil War / Leigh M. McLennon
  • Gustav Hasford's gothic poetics of demystification / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
  • Haunted jungles of horror and trauma: elements of the gothic in Vietnamese and American war fiction / John Armstrong
  • Evil things in robes of sorrow: Albert Pinkham Ryder's war gothic / Jayme Yahr
  • Mastering nature: war gothic and the monstrous Anthropocene / Hans Staats
  • Troubled by memories: the World War II veteran as a gothic figure in William Wyler's The best years of our lives (1947) / Steffen Hantke
  • Snow Nazis must die: gothic tropes and Hollywood genre-fication in Nazisploitation horror / Ben Kooyman
  • "Ah, you lose you in there": gothic masculinities, specters of Vietnam and becoming monstrous in Southern comfort / Glen Donnar
  • "You are not in control": Spec ops: the line and the banality of war / Steven Holmes
  • Virtual war and the Nazi zombie gothic in Call of duty / John Höglund
  • Beast of America: revolution and monstrosity in BioShock infinite / Gwyneth Peaty
  • Operation horcrux: Harry Potter's war narrative in a post-9/11 context / Kylee Hartman-Warren
  • The gothicization of World War II as a source of cultural self-reflection in Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children and Hollow city / Agata Zarzycka
  • Conquering the frontier gothic in Red dawn / Karen J. Renner.