CFP: [International] Gothic Sensations - Sensational Gothic (09/10-12/09)
Gothic Sensations â€" Sensational Gothic
University of Salford, UK, 10-12 September 2009
The recent (re)turn to the study of emotion in literary studies invites a
reconsideration of the Gothic as a mode that relies on the emotional
response of those who are confronted with the uncanny and who, as a
result, experience fear. The ways in which writers represent emotional
response and immediacy is central to understanding the Gothic as a force
that transcends and transmutes culturally enforced structures of (self-)
control and the fashioning of gender roles and stereotypes.