The Female Gothic [electronic resource] : New Directions /
Wallace, D.editor.
Smith, A.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic; 1. Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies; 2. 'The Haunting Idea': Female Gothic Metaphors and Feminist Theory; 3. 'Mother Radcliff': Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic; 4. Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels; 5. Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Gothic Grotesque; 6. From Bluebeard's Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic; 7. Keeping It in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch
8. 'I Don't Want to be a [White] Girl': Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic9. Children of the Night: Shirley Jackson's Domestic Female Gothic; 10. Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love; 11. 'Unhomely Moments': Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic; 12. Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction; Index
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.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.