Victorian Gothic

Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-01-04
Mått140 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt506 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
Upplaga2000
FörlagPalgrave USA
ISBN9780312231699

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Litteraturvetenskap inom Skonlitteratur

ALISON CHAPMAN Lecturer in Literature, University of DundeeJ.-A. GEORGE Teacher of English and Drama, University of DundeeJAMES R. KINKAID Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern CaliforniaROGER LUCKHURST Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of LondonPETER MOREY Lecturer, Department of Cultural Studies, University of East LondonRICHARD PEARSON Lecturer in English, University College WorcesterVICTOR SAGE Reader in Literature, University of East AngliaR.J.C. WATT Senior Lecturer in English, University of DundeeKENNETH WOMACK Assistant Professor, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, AltoonaMARION WYNNE-DAVIES Lecturer in English, University of Dundee

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Preface: 'I Could a Tale Unfold' or, the Promise of Gothic; R.Robbins & J.Wolfreys 'Designing Gourmet Children or, KIDS FOR DINNER!'; J.R.Kinkaid Resurrecting the Regency: Horror and Eighteenth-Century Comedy in Le Fanu's Fiction; V.Sage 'I Wants to Make your Flesh Creep': Notes toward a Reading of the Comic-Gothic in Dickens; J.Wolfreys Hopkins and the Gothic Body; R.J.C.Watt From King Arthur to Sidonia the Sorceress: The Dual Nature of Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism; J.-A.George Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Literary Influence, and Technologies of the Uncanny; A.Chapman The 'Anxious Dream': Julia Margaret Cameron's Gothic Perspective; M.Wynne-Davies Trance Gothic, 1882-1897; R.Luckhurst 'Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage': Reading the Ethics of the Souls and the Late-Victorian Gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray; K.Womack Apparitions Can Be Deceptive: Vernon Lee's Androgynous Spectres; R.Robbins Gothic and Supernatural: Allegories at Work and Play in Kipling's Indian Fiction; P. Morey Archaeology and Gothic Desire: Vitality Beyond the Grave in H.Rider Haggard's Ancient Egypt; R.Pearson Bibliography Index