The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy Hardback
by Michael (Dalhousie University) Cameron
Part of the Elements in the Gothic series
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This Element explores the theme of 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels.
A liminal site of both possibility and irreconcilability, Gothic sympathy at once challenges the anthropocentric bias of traditional notions of sympathetic concern, premising compassionate relations with other beings – animal, vegetal, etc. – beyond the standard measure of the liberal-humanist subject, and at the same time acknowledges the horror that is the ineluctable and untranslatable otherness accompanying, interrupting, and shaping such a sympathetic connection.
Many examples of 'Last Man' fiction explore the dialectical impasse of Gothic sympathy by dramatizing complicated relationships between a lone liberal-humanist subject and other-than-human or posthuman subjects that will persist beyond humanity's extinction.
Such confrontations as they appear in Mary Shelley's The Last Man, H.G.
Wells's The Time Machine, and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend will be explored.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781009494526
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781009494526