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The New Woman gothic : reconfigurations of distress / Patricia Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Patricia, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Women in literature.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia [Missouri]: University of Missouri Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Part I The Blurred Boundary
- Chapter 1 Public Faces, Public Spaces 33
- Chapter 2 The Oldest Profession and the Newest Professionals 59
- Chapter 3 Sexuality: Beyond a Double Bind 81
- Part II Reimagined Conventions
- Chapter 4 London as Sexualized Labyrinth 105
- Chapter 5 Buried Alive in the Fin de Siècie 129
- Chapter 6 Entrapment within the "Institution" of Marriage 151
- Chapter 7 The Body as Ruin 171
- Part III Villainous Characters
- Chapter 8 The Bad Husband 199
- Chapter 9 The Mother as Agent 223
- Chapter 10 Exceeding Alterity 245.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826220673
- 9780826220677
- OCLC:
- 909974828
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