The female gothic New directions /
This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new...
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions. |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2009. |
Carrier Form: | 240 p. |
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9780230222717 9780230245457 : 0230245455 : |
CLC: | I561.074 |
Contents: | Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic-- D.Wallace & A.Smith Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies-- L.Fitzgerald 'The haunting idea': female Gothic metaphors and feminist theory-- D.Wallace 'Mother Radcliff': Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic-- R.Miles Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels-- A.Wright Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Grotesque-- A.Milbank From Bluebeard's Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic-- M.Mulvey-Roberts Keeping it in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch-- A.Horner & S.Zlosnik 'I Don't Want to be a [White] Girl': Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic-- M.Miller Children of the night: Shirley Jackson's Domestic Female Gothic-- A.Smith Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love-- A.Heise-von der Lippe 'Unhomely moments': Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic-- K.Bohata Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction-- C.M.Davison Index. |