The Female Gothic: New Directions

by D. Wallace (Editor), A. Smith (Editor)

Overview

This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349308309
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/12/2009
Edition description:	1st ed. 2009
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

DIANA WALLACE is Reader in English at the University of Glamorgan, UK. She is the author of The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 (2005) and Sisters and Rivals in British Women's Fiction, 1914-39 (2000), and co-editor (with Andrew Smith) of a special edition of Gothic Studies on 'The Female Gothic' (2004).

ANDREW SMITH is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan, UK where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS). Published books include Gothic Literature (2007), Victorian Demons (2004), and Gothic Radicalism (2000). He edits, with Benjamin F. Fisher, the series 'Gothic Literary Studies', for the University of Wales Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic; D.Wallace  & A.Smith Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies; L.Fitzgerald 'The haunting idea': female Gothic metaphors and feminist theory; D.Wallace 'Mother Radcliff': Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic; R.Miles Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels; A.Wright Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Grotesque; A.Milbank From Bluebeard's Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic; M.Mulvey-Roberts Keeping it in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch; A.Horner  & S.Zlosnik 'I Don't Want to be a [White] Girl': Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic; M.Miller Children of the night: Shirley Jackson's Domestic Female Gothic; A.Smith Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love ; A.Heise-von der Lippe 'Unhomely moments': Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic; K.Bohata Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction; C.M.Davison Index