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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; PART I: The Gothic Mystique: Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and the (Fe)Male Condition; 1 "A Romance Fit for the Taste of Our Era": Anna Mostowska and the First Polish Gothic Stories; 2 Under the Sign of Gothic: the Goddess Kālī from Mahābhārata to Marguerite Yourcenar's "Kali Beheaded"; 3 The Gothic Excess in "The Albanian Virgin" by Alice Munro and Broken April by Ismail Kadare; 4 "A Play of Fear and Laughter": Gothic Excesses in A.S. Byatt's Possession; PART II: Look Now: Gothic in Film |
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5 Monstrosity and Suffering in the Roles of Lon Chaney6 A Portrait of the Artist as a Vampire in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive; PART III: Little Ones Love to Be Afraid; 7 From Puppet to 'Real' Boy: Pinocchio Transformed; 8 Gothic, Commodities, and Culture: the Monster High Franchise; PART IV: Gothic Spaces; 9 Disturbing "the Sleep of Substance": Nabokov's and Millhauser's Infinite Museums; 10 Fright Factories: Nineteenth-Century Industrial Gothic; 11 A Criminal Intrigue in a Gothic Scenery: Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr; PART V: Gothic Monstrosities |
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12 Monstrous Educators: The Wendol of Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead13 H.P. Lovecraft, Horrific Creation, and Post-humanism; PART VI: Transgressing Boundaries and Crossing Borders; 14 Gothic Elements in the Novel Valérie a týden divů by the Czech Writer Vítĕzslav Nezval; 15 Life, Politics, Science, and Art: Poe's "The Raven" and Its Reinterpretations by Sastre, Witkiewicz, and Pleijel; 16 Stranger than Fiction: Gothic Themes in Bereavement Memoirs of Spousal Loss; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This volume examines Gothic peregrinations not only from a geographical perspective but also to investigate how the genre has been at odds with strict demarcation of generic boundaries. Analyzing texts which come from outside the Gothic canon, yet prove to be deeply indebted to it, like bereavement memoirs, stories produced by and about factory girls of Massachusetts, which parallel those produced in England at the same time, and the Mattel Monster High franchise, this volume illuminate the previously unexplored fields in Gothic studies. The essays in this volume reveal the truly transnational expansion of the Gothic and the importance of exchange - exchange now seen not only as crucial to the genre's gestation, or vital to the processes of globalization, but also to legitimizing Gothic studies in the global world |
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Print version record |
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ma?ecka, Katarzyna
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| ISBN |
9780429859717 |
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0429859716 |
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