Perils of the night : a feminist study of nineteenth-century Gothic /

DeLamotte's 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. She explores this question in the works of English a...

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主要作者: DeLamotte, Eugenia C. (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
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書本目錄:
  • I. Boundaries of the self as a Gothic theme: 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
  • II. Boundaries of the self in women's Gothic: 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.