Women and gothic / edited by Maria Purves.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Purves, Maria, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This small collection of essays explores women's relationship with the gothic: a relationship which has, since its eighteenth-century beginnings, been complex. These essays demonstrate the scope and diversity of that relationship, as well as its intensity: the ingenuity and genius employed, the anguish experienced and the risks taken, across the artistic spectrum, in its forging. Genuinely representative of gothic's diversity, flexibility, and ubiquity, this volume brings new primary sources...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A BRIEF INTRODUCTION; "STILL TO BE SEEN"; "JUNKETACEOUS GOTHICK"; IMAGINARY DIMENSIONS; ON NARRATIVE CURIOSITY; THE AFTER-LIVES OF THE BRIDEOF FRANKENSTEIN; "BETTER KNOWN AS ROSA MATILDA"; "BE WARY THEN: BEST SAFETYLIES IN FEAR"; A CASTLE, A COMMISSARY, AND A CORPSE; THE GOTHIC GENIUS OF MARYWEBB; INCARCERATING THE SANE; "THE WORDLESS SECRETSOF DEATH'S DEEP"; THE FEMALE MUSICAL UNCANNYIN THE FICTION OF E. T. A. HOFFMANN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5793-9

OCLC:

875097181