Le Gothic : influences and appropriations in Europe and America / edited by Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horner, Avril, 1947-

Contributor:

Zlosnik, Sue, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic revival (Literature).

Physical Description:

xiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Le Gothic provides a valuable corrective to the idea that Gothic fiction is mainly an Anglo-American phenomenon. Charting numerous influences and appropriations that took place between Europe and America between the late eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, it shows how Gothic writing flourished by crossing national and linguistic boundaries. It traces the importance of revolutionary Paris in the evolution of Gothic and explores cross-Channel fertilisations and transatlantic exchanges in film and literature. Opening up new contexts, the contributors offer fresh perspectives on the work of Rousseau, de Sade, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, Victor Hugo, Gaston Leroux, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Huysmans, Machen, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Pierrette Fleutiaux and Angela Carter, while considering Gothic writing in relation to Modernism and modernisation; the city; translation; gender; religion and postcolonialism.

Contents:

Part I The Paris Nexus

2 Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, Leroux's Le Fantome de l'Opera and the Changing Functions of the Gothic / Jerrold E. Hogle 15

3 Edgar Allan Poe in Paris: The Flaneur, the Detournement and the Gothic Spaces of the Nineteenth-Century City / Linnie Blake 38

4 Blood in Paris: Transformations of Revolutionary Gothic in Henry James and Elizabeth Bowen / Raphael Ingelbien 50

Part II Channel Crossings

5 'How do we ape thee, France!' The Cult of Rousseau in Women's Gothic Writing in the 1790s / Angela Wright 67

6 Huysmans, Machen and the Gothic Grotesque, Or: The Way Up is the Way Down / Alison Milbank 83

7 Gothic Permutations from the 1790s to the 1970s: Rethinking the Marquis de Sade's Legacy / Maria Vara 100

8 Dracula's Daughters: Angela Carter and Pierrette Fleutiaux's Vampiric Exchanges / Rebecca Munford 116

Part III Transatlantic Voyages

9 Beast's Triumph over Beauty in Gothic Film / Kathy Justice Gentile 137

10 'Who is the third who walks always beside you?' Eliot, Stoker and Stetson in The Waste Land / William Hughes 151

11 Calvinist Gothic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, or the Transformation and James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner / Carol Margaret Davison 166

12 Colonial Ghosts: Mimicking Dickens in America / Andrew Smith 185

Part IV Coda: Other Directions

13 Translating Technologies: Dickens, Kafka and the Gothic / Barry Murnane 201

14 A Voyage through the Phantom Museum / David Punter 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230517646

0230517641

OCLC:

180470182