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- Title
"There is a demon out there on the ice in the dark": Monstrous Horrors, Climate Change, and Gothic Irony in Dan Simmons's The Terror.
- Authors
Rhoads, Sean
- Abstract
From 1845 to 1848, the 129 seamen of British explorer Sir John Franklin's lost expedition died attempting to force the Northwest Passage. In 2007, American novelist Dan Simmons posited one possible fate of Franklin and his men in The Terror. In Simmons's novel, the explorers meet a grim fate in the high Arctic, where they are plagued by the unforgiving elements, malnourishment, human hubris and prejudices, and their relentless pursuit by a monstrous polar bear with uncanny intelligence and maleficence. In this article, I offer an analysis of Simmons's novel as a reimagined, ironic Gothic text, one that presents a satirical update of the genre to comment on problematic religious, racial, sexuality, gender, and environmental issues in the Gothic's past that remain just as relevant in the present-day.
- Subjects
ARCTIC regions; FRANKLIN, John, Sir, 1786-1847; TERROR, The (Book); PRIDE &; vanity in literature; GOTHIC language literature
- Publication
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2021, Vol 32, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
0897-0521
- Publication type
Article