<BODY>Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby will be launching two new books on the Gothic by Professor Gerry Turcotte, Executive Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia. The books are <EM>Peripheral Fear: Transformations of the Gothic in Canadian and Australian Fiction</EM> (P.I.E. Peter Lang) and <EM>Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic</EM> (Wilfrid Laurier University Press). <BR><BR> <I>Peripheral Fear: Transformations of the Gothic in Canadian and Australian Fiction</I>
is a sole-authored publication that looks at the fascinating history of the Gothic genre and how it was rewritten by colonial and postcolonial writers to speak to the Australian and Canadian experience. The study examines foundational literatures of Canada and Australia but also contemporary works by writers such as Margaret Atwood, Kate Grenville, Louis Nowra, Robertson Davies and Patrick White. Professor Ken Gelder has called the book “a meticulously researched ride through the gothic in all its New World literary incarnations, giving us a powerful argument for [the Gothic’s] continuing ‘counter-discursive’ potential.” <BR><BR><I>Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic</I>
is a co-edited collection with Canadian academic Cynthia Sugars. The work examines similarly challenging rewritings of the Gothic, but with a particular emphasis on how the Gothic, the Canadian and the Postcolonial come together to challenge dominant literary, political and social narratives. <BR><BR>Date: 27 November 2009<BR>Time: 6 pm<BR>Venue: Gleebooks: <BR>Address49 Glebe Point Road<BR>RSVP: (02) 9660 2333<BR><BR><BR>Kind Regards, <BR><BR>Dr Cate Thill <BR><BR>Lecturer<BR>School of Arts & Sciences (Sydney) <BR>The University Of Notre Dame <BR>Corner Broadway and Abercrombie Street (PO Box 944) <BR>Broadway NSW 2007 <BR>www.sydney.nd.edu.au <BR><BR><BR><BR></BODY>