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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahawatte, Royce, author.

Series:

Gothic literary studies.

Gothic Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

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

Eliot, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian novel.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Note on Names; List of abbreviations; Prologue; Introduction: 'half-womanish, half-ghostly': George Eliot and the Inheritance of the Gothic; Reimagining the Genres of Feeling; 'as if there was a demon in me': 'Janet's Repentence'and the Evangelical Gothic; 'with two names written on it': Sensation Narratives in Adam Bede; 'of one texture with the rest of my existence':'The Lifted Veil' and the Tale of the Supernatural; Uncanny Women, Fearing Men; Counterfeit Gothic Heroines in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch

Romola and Felix Holt, The Radical: The Pursuits of Paranoid MenFinale: Daniel Deronda: Sensationalized Society, Gothicized Self; Epilogue; Notes; List of Works Cited and Consulted; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 11, 2015).

ISBN:

0-7083-2577-7

OCLC:

831118714