Gothic Nostalgia

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<p>This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory</p><p>are used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics in</p><p>contemporary popular culture. The essays collected here cover topics from the spectral to</p><p>the ecological, deep fakes to toxic ableism,<i>Mary Poppins</i>to<i>John Wick</i> to reveal</p><p>how the use of an imaginary past to shape the present, creates truly Gothic times that we</p><p>can never escape. These hungry ghosts from the past find resonance with the Gothic</p><p>which speaks equally of a past that often not only haunts the present but will not let it</p><p>escape its grasp. This collection will look at the confluence between various kinds of toxic</p><p>nostalgia and popular culture to suggest the ways in which contemporary populism has</p><p>resurrected ideological monsters from the grave to gorge on the present and any possibility</p><p>of change that the future might represent.</p><br><p></p>

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<p><b>Simon Bacon</b> is an independent scholar based in Pozna¿, Poland.</p> <p> </p> <p><b>Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon</b> is Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in</p> <p>Poznan, Poland.</p>

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