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Tag Archives: parody
Steampunk and Neo-Victorianism
The rapid interbreeding of genres around fantastic literature in general but particularly (and this has been my focus) with YA fantasy has found Neo-Victorian/Steampunk in bed with paranormal romance; I’m hoping to write about a couple of novels with this … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasy, Genre, humour, neo-Victorianism, parody, steampunk
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Maria Cohut, ‘Review: Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright’
Chris Riddel’s Goth Girl books are great fun, appealing to both young people and older people versed in literary knowledge. They’re wittily, pleasurably intertextual. Maria Cohut of the University of Warwick has written an enticing review here on the latest … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Children's literature, Gothic, Gothic novel, Intertextuality, parody, Romanticism, Victorian Gothic, YA Fiction
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