Title Victorian Gothic : literary and cultural manifestations in the nineteenth century / edited by Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave, 2000

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Description xx, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Preface : 'I could a tale unfold' or, the promise of Gothic / Julian Wolfreys -- 'Designing gourmet children or, KIDS FOR DINNER!' / James R. Kincaid -- Resurrecting the Regency : horror and eighteenth-century comedy in Le Fanu's fiction / Victor Sage -- 'I wants to make your flesh creep' : notes toward a reading of the comic-gothic in Dickens / Julian Wolfreys -- Hopkins and the Gothic body / R.J.C. Watt -- From King Arthur to Sidonia the Sorceress : the dual nature of pre-Raphaelite mediaevalism / J.-A. George -- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, literary influence and technologies of the uncanny / Alison Chapman -- The 'anxious dream' : Julia Margaret Cameron's Gothic perspective / Marion Wynne-Davies -- Trance-Gothic, 1882-97 / Roger Luckhurst -- 'Withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage' : reading the ethics of the soul and the late-Victorian Gothic in The picture of Dorian Gray / Kenneth Womack -- Apparitions can be deceptive : Vernon Lee's androgynous spectres / Ruth Robbins -- Gothic and supernatural : allegories at work and play in Kipling's Indian fiction / Peter Morey -- Archaeology and Gothic desire : vitality beyond the grave in H. Rider Haggard's ancient Egypt / Richard Pearson Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index Subject Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History. Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain. Gothic literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Horror tales, English -- History and criticism. Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism. Supernatural in literature. Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 United Kingdom -- Civilization -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056625 Author Wolfreys, Julian, 1958- Robbins, Ruth, 1965- LC no. 00042068 ISBN 0312231695 0333749359

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