The female gothic : new directions
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The female gothic : new directions
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of 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
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