Introduction From Gothic Wanderer to Nomadic Subject
Twenty-first-century children’s Gothic fiction begins with a violent act of un-homing. Three children lose their parents and their home, set adrift to wander an expansive, treacherous, Gothic landscape on a journey spanning the thirteen books that comprise Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Ev...
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| Published in | Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic p. 1 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
07.03.2018
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| Summary: | Twenty-first-century children’s Gothic fiction begins with a violent act of un-homing. Three children lose their parents and their home, set adrift to wander an expansive, treacherous, Gothic landscape on a journey spanning the thirteen books that comprise Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999–2007). In the opening pages of the first book of this series, titled The Bad Beginning, a ‘mysterious figure’ approaches three children playing alone on a ‘grey’ and ‘misty’ beach. The figure is revealed to be a family lawyer, Mr Poe, who promptly informs the children that their parents have ‘perished’ in a fire, a |
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| ISBN: | 1474430171 9781474430173 |