Gothic & Gender
Subtitle: An Introduction
By: Donna Heiland.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing; Blackwell
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780631200505
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Horror tales, English -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Feminism and literature -- Great Britain; Women and literature -- Great Britain; Patriarchy in literature; Sex role in literature
Description: "Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland's Gothic & Gender offers a historically informed theoretical introduction to key gothic narratives from a feminist perspective." "The book concentrates primarily of fiction from the 1760s through the 1840s, exploring the work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Decre, Charles, Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, John Polidori, James Malcolm Rymer, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Smith, and Charles Brockden Brown. The final chapter looks at contemporary fiction and its relation to the gothic, including an exploration of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees." "A Coda provides an overview of scholarship on the gothic, showing how gothic gradually became a major focus for literary critics, and paying particular attention to the feminist reinvigoration of gothic studies that began in the 1970s and continues today." "Taken as a whole the book offers a survey of the representation of gender in the gothic, suitable for both students and readers of gothic literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.