The Utopian and the Gothic in Ellis James Davis’s Pyrna:
A Commune; or, Under The Ice
The Utopian and the Gothic in Ellis James Davis’s Pyrna:
A Commune; or, Under The Ice
Author(s): Marta KomstaSubject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: utopia; Gothic; sublime; numinous;space;
Summary/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 modeinto the utopian convention. By examining selected aspects of the novella’s world, thisarticle argues that the Gothic tropes of numinosity and sublime constitute significantelements as major defamiliarizing components of the semiotically monolithic utopianspatial model.
Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
- Issue Year: 43/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 31-39
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English