Description:
The first critical study that theorises the Italian Gothic and examines its main forms and manifestations across arts, media, and disciplines
Brief description: Marco Malvestio is EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua. His project, "EcoSF - The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction", conducted in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explores the presence of ecological issues in Italian science fiction. He published The Conflict Revisited: The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction (Peter Lang, 2021) and Raccontare la fine del mondo. Fantascienza e Antropocene (nottetempo, 2021).
Review Quotes: This imaginatively conceived volume is impeccable in its scholarship, and opens up new ways of thinking about Italian culture in the past two centuries. It does so with great critical insight and panache, dispelling long-held critical prejudices against the Gothic as genre and mode, and unsettling canonical views and critical frameworks. The volume makes for rich and compelling reading.--Giuliana Pieri, Royal Holloway University of London