Author: Kaja Franck

Johan Höglund, The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), 224pp. Hb, PDF, ePUB £95.00. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4954-6 Reading Höglund’s The American Imperial Gothic in the current political climate is an uncomfortable experience. In his preface he states that ‘the border between good and evil is often absolute in the American imperial gothic.…

Xavier Aldana Reyes, Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horrror Film (Cardiff: University of Wales Press). 272 pp. £95 hb, £95 ebook. ISBN 978-1-78316-1, e-ISSBN 978-1-78316-093-8. Xavier Aldana Reyes’ Body Gothic aims to reclaim the somatic experience of Gothic texts and consider how the body is figured, disfigured and dismantled in horror. “Body…