Peripheral Fear: Transformations of the Gothic in Canadian and Australian Fiction (Nouvelle poétique comparatiste / New Comparative Poetics)

This is a pioneering work published here for the first time in its complete form. At a time when Gothic studies still concentrated on traditional European and American Gothic, the author laid the foundations for the exploration of how Gothic conventions were transported and transformed in places remote from Europe.
Through a detailed reading of 19th- and 20th-century examples of Canadian and Australian Gothic fiction, this work demonstrates the transformative potential of a once much-maligned mode in what were arguably neglected national literatures.

The Author: Gerry Turcotte is the Executive Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He is the author and editor of 14 books including the novel Flying in Silence which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year in 2001 and Border Crossings: Words & Images.