The Gothic Contagion from Popular Literature to Transmedial Memes

The article examines the development of the Gothic mode across the centuries in terms of transmedial contagion. In particular, the analysis focuses on the survival of specific Gothic tropes and figures in the nineteenth-century street literature phenomenon of penny-blood. This lowbrow literary form...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Federica Perazzini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2021-12-01
Series:Lea
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/12795