Maternal Gaze in the Gothic

Sara Williams is an independent scholar in the field of English Literature with an emphasis on Gothic literature and film. Her research focuses on relationships between trauma, voyeurism and consumption in the maternal Gothic and she has published a variety of reviews, articles, chapters; a critical edition. She is currently co-editing a collection The Crazy Cat Lady and the Gothic.

• Chapter 1. Introduction - The Maternal Gaze in the Gothic.- Part 1: The Gothic Heritage.- Chapter 2. The Gothic and Maternal Symbolism in the works of J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker.- Chapter 3. “The more I saw the less they would”: Subverting Hysteria and Surveillance in The Turn of the Screw, The Others and The Orphanage.- Part 2: Gothic Practices.- Chapter 4. Seeing is Believing: Spiritualism, Psychic Photography and the Maternal Gaze.- Chapter 5. “Taken From Life”: Memorial Portraiture, Divine Death and the Virgin Mary in the Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron.- Part 3: The Gothic Domestic.- Chapter 6. Guilty Pleasures: Incest and the Pre-Oedipal Maternal Tangle in Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Virginia Andrews' Dollanganger Saga and Misery Literature.- Chapter 7. The Maternal Gaze and the Gothic Abyss of the Internet.