Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna
• Brien, Donna Lee

Titel

Writing ‘Lesbian, Gay-Type Lovers’: Buffy, Postmodern Gothic and Interruptions to the Lesbian Cliché

Ist Teil von

• New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic, 2015, p.142-155

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During the fin de siècle of the 19th and 20th centuries, late Victorian Gothic works such as Shelley’s Frankenstein and Stoker’s Dracula explored “contemporary anxieties about sexuality, religion and morals, science and psychology, imperialism, and the Other” (Siemann 2002, 127). As modernity and the 20th century came to an end, humanity became increasingly characterised by a contradictory, complex, and polarised era labelled “postmodernity” (Jameson 1991). The advent of the postmodern era has witnessed a resurgence within cultural outputs of Gothic tropes such as the vampire and the werewolf, and Gothic themes such as sexuality, liminality and the intersections of rural wilderness and urban chaos (for example, the television series True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and Lost Girl; the Twilight saga books and movies; and the Dark Knight Trilogy of films).