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Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic
Tell Fear No
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2023
Summary
While many scholars agree the Gothic mode has been a precursor to science fiction since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carey Millsap-Spears argues in this book that the made for streaming series Star Trek Discovery draws on an even older gothic formula, namely the Female Gothic of Ann Radcliffe’s romance novels, including The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho. Millsap-Spears reads the streaming series through the lens of the Female Gothic, illustrating that each season contains the formulaic elements of a mystery, a gothic villain and heroine, an escape narrative, and the explained supernatural. In doing so, the author expands Star Trek scholarship and sheds new light on the intertextual connections between gothic literature and contemporary science fiction.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1051-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1052-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
180
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 28
“Haven’t You Ever Been Afraid of a Ghost?” No access Pages 29 - 54
“That Hope Is You” No access Pages 55 - 78
“He Groomed You. He Chose You” No access Pages 79 - 96
“That’s How We Find Our Way” No access Pages 97 - 114
“I Like Science” No access Pages 115 - 134
“Sometimes We Know the Role We’re Meant to Play” No access Pages 135 - 152
Conclusion No access Pages 153 - 160
Works Cited No access Pages 161 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 178
About the Author No access Pages 179 - 180
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