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Botting, Fred

Gothic romanced : consumption, gender and technology in contemporary fictions / Fred Botting - London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. - 223 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Romance never dies -- Romance, ruins and the thing : from the romantic sublime to cybergothic -- Romance consumed : death, simulation and the vampire -- Poor things as they are : political romance from Alasdair Gray to William Godwin -- Monsters of the imagination : science, fiction, romance -- Flight of the heroine : from feminised gothic to postfeminist romance -- Resistance is futile : romance and the machine

ISBN: 9780415450898 (hardback) 0415450896 (hardback) 9780415450904 (pbk.) 041545090X (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Love in Literature
Horror in Literature
Science in Literature
Popular culture and Literature
Horror Tales, English--History and Criticism
Horror Tales, American--History and Criticism
Romance Fiction, English--History and Criticism
Romance Fiction, American--History and Criticism
Science Fiction, English--History and Criticism
Science fiction, American--History and Criticism

Dewey Class. No.: 823.0872909 / BOT/G