Female gothic histories : gender, history and the gothic / Diana Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Diana, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

Physical Description:

viii, 251 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University Of Wales Press, [2013]

Summary:

This volume traces the development of women's Gothic historical fiction from Sophia Lee's The Recess in the late eighteenth century through the work of Elizabeth Gaskell, Vernon Lee, Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt, to the best-selling novels of Sarah Waters in the twenty-first century. Often left out of traditional historical narratives, women have turned to Gothic historical fiction as a mode of writing that can both reinsert them into history and symbolise their exclusion. This study breaks new ground in bringing together thinking about the Gothic and the historical novel, and in combining psychoanalytic theory with historical contextualization. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 The Murder of the Mother: Sophia Lee's The Recess (1783-5) 25

3 Be-witched and Ghosted: Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Historical Tales 67

4 Puzzling over the Past: Vernon Lee's Fantastic Stories 101

5 Displacing the Past: Daphne du Maurier and the Modern Gothic 132

6 Queer as History: Sarah Waters's Gothic Historical Novels 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index.

ISBN:

0708325742

9780708325742

OCLC:

809911124