Women and domestic space in contemporary gothic narratives
Subtitle: the house as subject
By: by Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Series: Geocriticism and spatial literary studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781137536815
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); Horror comic books, strips; Home in motion pictures; Dwellings in literature; History and criticism; Women in motion pictures; Gothic fiction (Literary genre); Dwellings in motion pictures; Horror films; Home in literature; Women in literature
Other titles: House as subject
Description: Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Andrew Hock Soon Ng instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it. Discussing contemporary novels by Angela Carter, Valerie Martin, Toni Morrison, and Janice Galloway; films such as The Exorcist, Repulsion, The Others, and The Orphanage; and Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking autobiographical work, Fun Home, within a framework of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and spatial and architectural theories, this book reveals the complicated relationship between the house and the female subject.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the subject of the house in gothic narratives; title: Housing treachery. Angela Carter's The magic toyshop and love; title: Housing the unspeakable. Valerie Martin's Property and Toni Morrison's Beloved; title: Housing secret selves. William Friedkin's The exorcist and Roman Polanski's Repulsion; title: Housing melancholia. Alejandro Amenábar's The others and Juan A. Bayona's The orphanage; title: Conclusion: housing redemption. Janice Galloway's The trick is to keep breathing and Alison Bechdel's Fun home.