TY - BOOK AU - Botting,Fred TI - Gothic romanced : consumption, gender and technology in contemporary fictions SN - 9780415450898 (hardback) U1 - 823.0872909 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Love in Literature KW - Horror in Literature KW - Science in Literature KW - Popular culture and Literature KW - Horror Tales, English KW - History and Criticism KW - Horror Tales, American KW - Romance Fiction, English KW - Romance Fiction, American KW - Science Fiction, English KW - Science fiction, American N1 - 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 ER -