Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety

Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropo­cene Anxiety is a groundbreaking exploration of the Gothic genre, offering a new materialist analysis that highlights the ways objects assume mysterious animacy or potency and reduce human beings to just one thing among many.

This book resituates the Gothic as a reflection of contemporary critical and cultural theory, with a focus on anxiety over the fate of the human.

Through a detailed examination of gothic bodies, spaces, books, and other objects, Weinstock reveals how the Gothic insistently decenters the human, showing how humans are enmeshed in networks of human and nonhuman forces outside of their control.

This thought-provoking work will appeal to scholars of literature, cultural studies, and philosophy, as well as anyone interested in exploring the darker side of human relations with the nonhuman world.