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Record Nr.

UNISA996210510503316

Autore

Heiland Donna

Titolo

Gothic & gender [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Donna Heiland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2004

ISBN

1-280-19747-1

9786610197477

0-470-70046-7

0-470-77569-6

1-4051-4289-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

809.38729

823.0872909

823/.0872909

Soggetti

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

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 (p. 201-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gothic & Gender: An Introduction; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Patriarchal Narratives in the Work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Sophia Lee; 2 The Aesthetic of the Sublime in the Work of Matthew Lewis,Charlotte Dacre, and Charles Maturin; 3 Rethinking the Sublime in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe; 4 From the Sublime to the Uncanny: Godwin and Wollstonecraft; 5 Uncanny Monsters in the Work of Mary Shelley, John Polidori,and James Malcolm Rymer; 6 Confronting the Uncanny in the Brontèˆs



7 The "Unhomely" Nation of Gothic Narratives: Charlotte Smith,Charles Brockden Brown, and Matthew Lewis8 Feminist, Postmodern, Postcolonial: Margaret Atwood andAnn-Marie Macdonald Respond to the Gothic; Coda: Criticism of the Gothic; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 and Gender offers a historically informed theoretical introduction to key gothic narratives from a feminist perspective.The book concentrates primarily on fiction from the 1760s through the 1840s, exploring the work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, John Polidori, James Malcolm Rymer, Emily Bronte, Cha