The Female Gothic
eBook - PDF

The Female Gothic

New Directions

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Female Gothic

New Directions

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access The Female Gothic by D. Wallace, A. Smith, D. Wallace,A. Smith in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Medieval & Early Modern Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Notes on the Contributors
  10. Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic
  11. 1. Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies
  12. 2. ‘The Haunting Idea’: Female Gothic Metaphors and Feminist Theory
  13. 3. ‘Mother Radcliff’: Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic
  14. 4. Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels
  15. 5. Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Gothic Grotesque
  16. 6. From Bluebeard’s Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic
  17. 7. Keeping It in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch
  18. 8. ‘I Don’t Want to be a [White] Girl’: Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic
  19. 9. Children of the Night: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Female Gothic
  20. 10. Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Love
  21. 11. ‘Unhomely Moments’: Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic
  22. 12. Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction
  23. Index