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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786113403321

Autore

Mahawatte Royce

Titolo

George Eliot and the gothic novel : genres, gender, feeling / / Royce Mahawatte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-7083-2577-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Gothic Literary Studies

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - Criticism and interpretation

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Note on Names; List of abbreviations; Prologue; Introduction: 'half-womanish, half-ghostly': George Eliot and the Inheritance of the Gothic; Reimagining the Genres of Feeling; 'as if there was a demon in me': 'Janet's Repentence'and the Evangelical Gothic; 'with two names written on it': Sensation Narratives in Adam Bede; 'of one texture with the rest of my existence':'The Lifted Veil' and the Tale of the Supernatural; Uncanny Women, Fearing Men; Counterfeit Gothic Heroines in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch

Romola and Felix Holt, The Radical: The Pursuits of Paranoid MenFinale: Daniel Deronda: Sensationalized Society, Gothicized Self; Epilogue; Notes; List of Works Cited and Consulted; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian novel.