Perils of the night: a feminist study of nineteenth-century Gothic
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1. Verfasser: DeLamotte, Eugenia C. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1990
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-340) and index
I. - Boundaries of the self as a Gothic theme - Introduction - The genre, the canon, and the myth - 1 - Self-defense in the Gothic tradition : Radcliffe, Brockden Brown, Henry James - 2 - The mystery of knowledge : Frankenstein, Melmoth, Pierre - 3 - "Deadly iteration" : Hawthorne's Gothic vision - 4 - Boundaries of the self as romantic theme : Emily Brontë -- - II. - Boundaries of the self in women's Gothic - 5 - Speaking "I" and the Gothic nightmare : boundaries of the self as a woman's theme - 6 - Gothic romance and women's reality in Jane Eyre - 7 - Villette : demystifying women's Gothic
DeLamotte's book begins from the premise that the major conventions of the Gothic romance involve boundaries or barriers, which the Gothicist uses to play simultaneously on the fear of separateness and the fear of unity with some alien Other. She explores this question in the works of English and American writers, including Henry James, Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Hawthorne, Emily Bronte, and Charlotte Bronte
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 352 p.)
ISBN:0195363469
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