Revue Between XV.29 (mai 2025)
Date d’échéance : 30 septembre 2024
Sous la direction d’ Anna Chiara Corradino (University of Potsdam), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore), et Marco Malvestio (University of Padua).
Texte de l’appel :
Historically, there has been a profound connection between the Gothic and technology: first, because of the Gothic’s ability to theorize its risks and ambiguities (as in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s seminal Frankenstein, 1818); and second, because it is through up-to-date technological solutions that the Gothic began to populate the stage, initially in the form of dramas (as in Matthew Lewis’s The Castle Spectre, 1797) and later in popular shows like phantasmagorias. Moreover, the emergence of new communication technologies, such as the telegraph, the radio, and the telephone, is strictly tied to the development of spiritualism, and thus to contemporary manifestations of the ghost story genre. Continuer la lecture de Appel à contributions : Gothic Technologies (revue Between)