| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages). |
| Series |
Gothic Literary Studies |
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Gothic literary studies.
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| Contents |
Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Illustrations; Introduction; Gothic Pathologies: Haunted Children; Building Suspense:Architectural Gothic; Gothic Inhumanity; Queering the Gothic; Survey of Criticism; Conclusion: Thriller and Stranger; Notes; Annotated Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This is a book looking at Gothic literature and film and its relationship to society and culture. It spans the long twentieth century from Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) to Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger (2009). One of the questions it raises is why we are still fascinated by ghosts, demons and monsters, despite living in a culture in which belief in the supernatural can no longer be assumed. It includes topics such as children and our fears for them, terrorism and atrocity, sexuality and disease and the comedy of fear. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism.
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Literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre) (OCoLC)fst01745235
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Armitt, Lucie. History of the Gothic : Twentieth-Century Gothic. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2011 9780708320075 |
| ISBN |
9780708323625 (electronic bk.) |
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0708323626 (electronic bk.) |
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