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Record Nr.

UNINA9910479911303321

Titolo

Gothic kinship / / edited by Agnes Andeweg and Sue Zlosnik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-5261-0303-6

1-78170-720-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

809.38729

Soggetti

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - History and criticism

Horror films - History and criticism

Kinship in literature

Families in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

5 'Children misbehaving in the walls!' or, Wes Craven's suburban family values: Bernice M. Murphy6 Fathers, friends, and families: Gothic kinship in Stephen King's Pet Sematary: John Sears; 7 Sisterhood is monstrous: Gothic imagery in Dutch feminist fiction: Agnes Andeweg; 8 The political uncanny of the family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between and The Civil Partnership Act: Anne Quéma; 9 Violent households: the family destabilized in The Monk (1796), Zofloya, or the Moor (1818), and Her Fearful Symmetry (2009): Joanne Watkiss

Sommario/riassunto

Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family