A Book of Monsters

A Book of Monsters

Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture

Ashford, David

Manchester University Press

06/2024

248

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9781526170873

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1 The modern Prometheus: A brief introduction to the horror of Enlightenment
2 Architects of the Occult: London's alternative "gothic" tradition
3 Gorillas in the House of Light: Inter-war Modernism as crisis management at London Zoo
4 Orc-talk: Spectres of Marx in Tolkien's Middle-Earth
5 Pandora's box: The insidious appeal of the Brutalist dystopia
6 The Mechanical Turk: Enduring misapprehensions concerning artificial intelligence
7 The Promethean Altar: Prospects of atonement in twenty-first century science fiction
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Index -- .
Modernism; Post-Modernism; gothic studies; Post-Humanism; Nicholas Hawksmoor; Le Corbusier; J.R.R. Tolkien; J.G. Ballard; J.M. Keynes; Alan Turing