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Women's authorship and the early Gothic : legacies and innovations / edited by Kathleen Hudson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gothic literary studies.
- Gothic literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
- Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.
- Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This collection examines Gothic fiction written by female authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Analysing works by lesser known authors within a historical context, the collection offers a fresh perspective on women writers and their contributions to Gothic literature.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series Preface
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustration
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Alternative Genealogies: (Re)tracing the Origins of Women's Gothic in Sophia Lee's The Recess and Mrs Carver'sThe Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
- 2. Gothic before Gothic: Minerva Press Reviews, Gender and the Evolution of Genre
- 3. What 'Poor Mrs Kelly' Saw: Isabella Kelly Reads the Monk
- 4. Mary Robinson's Gothic and the Prison of Gender
- 5. Adopting the 'Orphan': Literary Exchange and Appropriation in Eleanor Sleath's The Orphan of the Rhine
- 6. The Fiction of Mary Julia Young: Female Trade Gothic and Romantic Genre-Mixing
- 7. Sarah Wilkinson and J. F. Hughes: A Literary Relationship
- 8. Negotiating Gothic Nationalisms in Ann Radcliffe's Post-1797 Texts: Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and St. Alban's Abbey (1808)
- 9. Regina Maria Roche's The Children of the Abbey (1796): Its Literary Life and Afterlife
- 10. Self-haunted Heroines: Remapping the Generic 'I' back into Romantic Subjectivities
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78683-611-4
- OCLC:
- 1202475546
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