Gothic Sublime

This book reads the Gothic corpus with a thoroughly postmodern critical apparatus, pointing out that the Gothic Sublime anticipates our own doomed desire to pass beyond the hyperreal. A highly sophisticated theoretical reading of key texts of the Gothic, this book allows the reader to re-live the Gothic, not simply as a nostalgic relic or a pre-romantic aberration, but as a living presence that has strong resonances with the postmodern condition.

Vijay Mishra is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the English and Comparative Literature Program at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. He holds doctorates from the Australian National University and Oxford University. His publications include Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind (with Bob Hodge) and Devotional Poetics: A Theory of the Indian Sublime (in press). He has also completed a book on Indian Cinema and published over 40 articles on various aspects of English and Comparative literature and film theory.