The Victorian gothic: an Edinburgh companion
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press © 2012
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The first multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian Gothic. These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, provide an invaluable insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the nineteenth century. Covering a range of diverse contexts, the chapters focus on science, medicine, Queer theory, imperialism, nationalism, and gender. Together with further chapters on the ghost story, realism, the fin de siècle, pulp fictions, sensation fiction, and the Victorian way of death, the Companion provides the most complete overview of the Victorian Gothic to date
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Locating the Victorian Gothic; Chapter 1 Victorian Realism and the Gothic: Objects of Terror Transformed; Chapter 2 Sensation Fiction: A Peep Behind the Veil; Chapter 3 Victorian Gothic Pulp Fiction; Chapter 4 Victorian Gothic Drama; Chapter 5 Victorian Gothic Poetry: The Corpse's [a] Text; Chapter 6 The Victorian Ghost Story; Chapter 7 Victorian Gothic and National Identity: Cross-Channel 'Mysteries'; Chapter 8 The Victorian Gothic and Gender; Chapter 9 Queer Victorian Gothic; Chapter 10 Victorian Gothic Death
ISBN:9780748654970
0748654976

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