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- Title
The Utopian and the Gothic in Ellis James Davis's Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under The Ice.
- Authors
Komsta, Marta
- Abstract
The paper discusses spatial modelling in Ellis James Davis's Victorian utopia, Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under The Ice (1875) regarding its appropriation of the Gothic mode into the utopian convention. By examining selected aspects of the novella's world, this article argues that the Gothic tropes of numinosity and sublime constitute significant elements as major defamiliarizing components of the semiotically monolithic utopian spatial model.
- Subjects
PYRNA: A Commune: Or Under the Ice (Book); DAVIS, Ellis James; FICTION; LITERARY criticism; SPACE perception; UTOPIAS; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre)
- Publication
Lublin Studies in Modern Languages & Literature / Lubelskie Materialy Neofilologiczne, 2019, Vol 43, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
0137-4699
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.2.31-39