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British Women's Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930 : Our Own Ghostliness / / by Victoria Margree
| British Women's Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930 : Our Own Ghostliness / / by Victoria Margree |
| Autore | Margree Victoria |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Disciplina |
823.0872909
823.087290908 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 19th century Fiction Goth culture (Subculture) Twentieth-Century Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Fiction Literature Gothic Studies |
| ISBN | 3-030-27142-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Our Own Ghostliness -- (Other)Worldly Goods: Ghost Fiction as Financial Writing in Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Riddell.-Neither Punishment nor Poetry: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edith Nesbit and Female Death -- The Good Memsahib? Marriage, Infidelity and Empire in Alice Perrin's Anglo-Indian Tales -- Haunted Modernity in the Uncanny Stories of May Sinclair, Eleanor Scott and Violet Hunt -- Conclusion. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484853403321 |
Margree Victoria
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gothic Animals : Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out / / edited by Ruth Heholt, Melissa Edmundson
| Gothic Animals : Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out / / edited by Ruth Heholt, Melissa Edmundson |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
823.809
823.087290908 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature, Modern - 19th century Literature, Modern - 18th century European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 Fiction Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Early Modern and Renaissance Literature |
| ISBN |
9783030345402
3030345408 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Hell-Beasts and Haunting -- Chapter 2. ‘Like a Madd Dogge’: Demonic Animals and Animal Demoniacs in Early Modern English Possession Narratives -- Chapter 3. ‘Most Hideous of Gaolers’: The Spider in Ernest G. Henham’s Tenebrae -- Chapter 4. Devouring the Animal Within: Uncanny Otherness in Richard Adams’s Plague Dogs -- Chapter 5. Hunted, Now Haunting: The Figure of the Thylacine in Tasmanian Gothic Fiction -- Chapter 6. ‘What Do I Use to Make Them Afraid?’: The Gothic Animal and the Problem of Legitimacy in American Superhero Comics -- Chapter 7. The Monster Shark Still Lives: The Lazarus Taxon and Spectral Animal Bodies -- Chapter 8. ‘Rats is Bogies I Tell You, and Bogies is Rats’: Rats, Repression, and the Gothic Mode -- Chapter 9. At Home with Miniature Sea-monsters: Philip Henry Gosse -- Chapter 10. Uncanny Snails: Patricia Highsmith and the Allure of the Gastropod -- Chapter 11. ‘I Have Flyophobia’: Jane Rice’s ‘The Idol of the Flies’ and Evil as Unwelcome Houseguest -- Chapter 12. ‘Encircled by Minute, Evilly-Intentioned Airplanes’: The Uncanny Biopolitics of Robotic Bees -- Part III. Cultural Anxiety, Violence, and the Non-Human Body -- Chapter 13. A Bark and Stormy Night: Ann Radcliffe’s Animals -- Chapter 14. Hellish Horses and Monstrous Men: Gothic Horsemanship in Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe -- Chapter 15. The Colonial Idol, the Animalistic, and the New Woman in the Imperial Gothic of Richard Marsh -- Chapter 16. Victor Hugo’s Pieuvre and the Marine EcoGothic -- Chapter 17. The Human Within and the Animal Without?: Rats and Mr Bunnsy in Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents -- Chapter 18. Companion Animals in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Gothic. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483043003321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The new woman gothic : reconfigurations of distress / / Patricia Murphy
| The new woman gothic : reconfigurations of distress / / Patricia Murphy |
| Autore | Murphy Patricia <1951-> |
| Edizione | [1st edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, MO : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
| Disciplina |
823.0872909
823.087290908 |
| ISBN | 0-8262-7354-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Origins before Departures -- Part I. The Blurred Boundary -- Chapter One. Public Faces, Public Spaces -- Chapter Two. The Oldest Profession and the Newest Professionals -- Chapter Three. Sexuality: Beyond a Double Bind -- Part II. Reimagined Conventions -- Chapter Four. London as Sexualized Labyrinth -- Chapter Five. Buried Alive in the Fin de Siècle -- Chapter Six. Entrapment within the "Institution" of Marriage -- Chapter Seven. The Body as Ruin -- Part III. Villainous Characters -- Chapter Eight. The Bad Husband -- Chapter Nine. The Mother as Agent -- Chapter Ten. Exceeding Alterity -- Conclusion. Looking Back and Looking Forward -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910967849303321 |
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Murphy Patricia <1951->
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| Columbia, MO : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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