Download e-book for kindle: The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural: Essays on the by Melissa Edmundson

By Melissa Edmundson

ISBN-10: 0786499761

ISBN-13: 9780786499762

The CW’s long-running sequence Supernatural follows the adventures of brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they pursue the “family enterprise” of looking supernatural beings. mixing monster-of-the-week storylines with the unfolding saga of the brothers’ usually stricken dating, the convey represents Gothic matters of hysteria, the gigantic, kin trauma and, after all, the supernatural. The traces among human and monster, solid and evil, are blurred and person identities and motivations face up to effortless categorization. This choice of new essays examines how the sequence either comprises and complicates Gothic parts concerning conventional tropes, storytelling, girls and gender matters and monstrosity.

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