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Perils of the night : a feminist study of nineteenth-century Gothic / Eugenia C. DeLamotte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeLamotte, Eugenia C., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Criticism and interpretation.
- Brontë, Charlotte.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Feminism and literature--History--19th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--United States.
- Feminist fiction--History and criticism.
- Feminist fiction.
- Horror tales--History and criticism.
- Horror tales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Other Title:
- Feminist study of nineteenth-century Gothic
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book begins from the premise that the major conventions of the Gothic romance involve boundaries or barriers, which the Gothicist uses to play simultaneously on the fear of separateness and the fear of unity with some alien Other.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: The Genre, the Canon, and the Myth; 1 Self-Defense in the Gothic Tradition: Radcliffe, Brockden Brown, Henry James; 2 The Mystery of Knowledge: Frankenstein, Melmoth, Pierre; 3 ""Deadly Iteration"": Hawthorne's Gothic Vision; 4 Boundaries of the Self as Romantic Theme: Emily Brontë; 5 Speaking ""I"" and the Gothic Nightmare: Boundaries of the Self as a Woman's Theme; 6 Gothic Romance and Women's Reality in Jane Eyre; 7 Villette: Demystifying Women's Gothic; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p323-340.- Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9780197725573
- 0197725570
- 9781280523717
- 1280523719
- 9781423736394
- 1423736397
- 9780195363463
- 0195363469
- 9781601297228
- 160129722X
- OCLC:
- 475956971
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb32724 hdl
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