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



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Autore: Mahawatte Royce Visualizza persona
Titolo: George Eliot and the gothic novel : genres, gender, feeling / / Royce Mahawatte Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
Disciplina: 823.8
Soggetto topico: Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - Criticism and interpretation
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.
Titolo autorizzato: George Eliot and the gothic novel  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7083-2577-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786113403321
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Serie: Gothic literary studies.