George Eliot and the gothic novel : genres, gender, feeling / Royce Mahawatte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahawatte, Royce, author.

Series:

Gothic literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation.

Eliot, George.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--Criticism and interpretation.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 260 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.

Summary:

George Eliot and the Gothic Novel is the first monograph systematically to explore the relationship between George Eliot and Gothic genres. It considers the ways in which the author's ethics link to sensational story-telling tropes. Reappraising the major works of fiction, as well as the supernatural tale, 'The Lifted Veil', this study compares passages of Eliot's writing with sequences from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic works. In addition, the author examines Eliot's deployment of Gothic tropes, such as the incarcerated heroine in Middlemarch, doppelgängers in Romola and vampiric queerness in Daniel Deronda. In doing so, Eliot is raised from the boundaries of social realism and placed within a broader and richer Victorian literary scene than has previously been considered. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Reimagining the Genres of Feeling

1 'as if there was a demon in me': 'Janet's Repentence' and the Evangelical Gothic 33

2 'with two names written on it': Sensation Narratives in Adam Bede 55

3 'of one texture with the rest of my existence': 'The Lifted Veil' and the Tale of the Supernatural 74

Part II Uncanny Women, Fearing Men

4 Counterfeit Gothic Heroines in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch 99

5 Romola and Felix Holt, The Radical: The Pursuits of Paranoid Men 135

6 Finale: Daniel Deronda: Sensationalized Society, Gothicized Self 167.

Notes:

includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-247) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780708325766

0708325769

OCLC:

810116628