From Wollstonecraft to Stoker
Subtitle: essays on Gothic and Victorian sensation fiction
By: edited by Marilyn Brock.
Contributors: Brock, Marilyn, 1969-
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Publishers; McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780786440214
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Description: "This collection of essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Brontë. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.