: new directions Wallace, Diana creator Wallace, Diana Smith, Andrew text New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2009 monographic eng

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xiii, 219 pages 24cm. "This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions"--Provided by publisher. Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic / Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith -- Female Gothic and the institutionalisation of Gothic studies / Lauren Fitzgerald -- 'The haunting idea': Female Gothic metaphors and feminist theory / Diana Wallace -- 'Mother Radcliff': Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic / Robert Miles -- Disturbing the Female Gothic: an excavation of the Northanger novels / Angela Wright -- Bleeding nuns: a genealogy of the Female Gothic Grotesque / Allison Milbank -- From Bluebeard's bloody chamber to demonic stigmatic / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- Keeping it in the family: incest and the Female Gothic plot in du Maurier and Murdoch / Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik -- 'I don't want to be a [white] girl': gender, race and resistance in the Southern Gothic / Meredith Miller -- Children of the night: Shirley Jackson's domestic Female Gothic / Andrew Smith -- Others, monsters, ghosts: representations of the Female Gothic body in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love / Anya Heise-von der Lippe -- 'Unhomely moments': reading and writing nation in Welsh Female Gothic / Kirsti Bohata -- Monstrous regiments of women and brides of Frankenstein: gendered body politics in Scottish Female Gothic fiction / Carol Margaret Davison. / Diana Wallace English Literatures Old English Literatures English Fiction Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English Gothic novel Female authors Engelska skräckromaner -- historia Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism 823.0872 WAL 9781349308309 ;Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 220311 20220413121212.0