Messianic Nihilism in Gothic Horror: Walter Benjamin with Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe

Messianic Nihilism in Gothic Horror: Walter Benjamin with Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe

This essay considers Walter Benjamin’s model of messianic time alongside the powers of horror in the Gothic tradition, here represented by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” (1840). This configuration illustrates a messianic nihilism; a profane relation i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ursula de Leeuw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Monash University 2018-12-01
Series:Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique
Subjects:
Walter Benjamin
messianic time
gothic
nihilism
modernism
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Edgar Allan Poe
abjection
death drive
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.26180/5c11d5e25b25a

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