{"product_id":"gothic-things","title":"Gothic Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED, THE ALLAN LLOYD SMITH PRIZE FOR BEST MONOGRAPH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nOffering an innovative approach to the Gothic, \u003ci\u003eGothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety \u003c\/i\u003ebreaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on “ominous matter” and “thing power.” In chapters attending to gothic bodies, spaces, books, and other objects, \u003ci\u003eGothic Things \u003c\/i\u003eargues that the Gothic has always been about what happens when objects assume mysterious animacy or potency and when human beings are reduced to the status of just one thing among many—more powerful—others.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn exploring how the Gothic insistently decenters the human, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock reveals human beings to be enmeshed in networks of human and nonhuman forces mostly outside of their control. \u003ci\u003eGothic Things \u003c\/i\u003ethus resituates the Gothic as the uncanny doppelgänger of twenty-first-century critical and cultural theory, lurking just beneath the surface (and sometimes explicitly surfacing) as it haunts considerations of how human beings interact with objects and their environment. In these pages the Gothic offers a dark reflection of the contemporary “nonhuman turn,” expressing a twenty-first-century structure of feeling undergirded by anxiety over the fate of the human: spectrality, monstrosity, and apocalypse.\u003cbr\u003e\nSubstituting horror for hope, the Gothic, Weinstock explains, has been a philosophical meditation on human relations to the nonhuman since its inception, raising significant questions about how we can counter anthropocentric thought in our quest to live more harmoniously with the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43574020636854,"sku":"9781531503413","price":87.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781531503413.jpg?v=1725968980","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/gothic-things","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}