This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Bronte. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements, such as dark secrets and forbidden sensations, to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.
This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Bronte. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements, such as dark secrets and forbidden sensations, to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.
Editor Marilyn Brock is a professor and department chair of English and Humanities at Coastline Community College. She has published short fiction in Miranda Literary Magazine, Planet Magazine and other literary journals. She lives in Huntington Beach, California.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part One-The Instability of Identity: Character, Class, and Gender Desire and Fear: Feminine Abjection in the Gothic Fiction of Mary Wollstonecraft MARILYN BROCK "The Maiden Felt Hot Pain": Agency and Passivity in the Work of Letitia Elizabeth Landon RICHARD FANTINA "Portrait of a governess, disconnected, poor, and plain": Staging the Spectral Self in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre LAURENCE TALAIRACH-VIELMAS A Shock to the System, a System to the Shocks: The Horrors of the "Happy Ending" in The Woman in White JUDITH SANDERS Hysterical Sensations: Bodies in Action in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White ELIZABETH ANDERMAN Part Two-The Colonial Context of Gothic and Sensation Fiction Sensations Down Under: Australia's Seismic Charge in Great Expectations and Lady Audley's Secret JULIE M. BARST Reading Between the (Blood)lines of Victorian Vampires: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne" SAVERIO TOMAIUOLO The Vamp and the Good English Mother: Female Roles in Le Fanu's Carmilla and Stoker's Dracula MARILYN BROCK Liminality and Power in Bram Stoker's Jewel of Seven Stars KATE HOLTERHOFF Part Three-Fallen Woman, Fallen Man in the Victorian Novel Ruth: An Analysis of the Victorian Signifieds MARIA GRANIC-WHITE Violence as Patrimony in Le Fanu's Uncle Silas STEPHANIE KING In the Company of Men: Masculinity Gone Wild in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde JENNIFER BEAUVAIS Ghostly Absence and Sexual Presence in James's "Owen Wingrave" and "The Jolly Corner" NICHOLAS HARRIS About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part One-The Instability of Identity: Character, Class, and Gender Desire and Fear: Feminine Abjection in the Gothic Fiction of Mary Wollstonecraft MARILYN BROCK "The Maiden Felt Hot Pain": Agency and Passivity in the Work of Letitia Elizabeth Landon RICHARD FANTINA "Portrait of a governess, disconnected, poor, and plain": Staging the Spectral Self in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre LAURENCE TALAIRACH-VIELMAS A Shock to the System, a System to the Shocks: The Horrors of the "Happy Ending" in The Woman in White JUDITH SANDERS Hysterical Sensations: Bodies in Action in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White ELIZABETH ANDERMAN Part Two-The Colonial Context of Gothic and Sensation Fiction Sensations Down Under: Australia's Seismic Charge in Great Expectations and Lady Audley's Secret JULIE M. BARST Reading Between the (Blood)lines of Victorian Vampires: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne" SAVERIO TOMAIUOLO The Vamp and the Good English Mother: Female Roles in Le Fanu's Carmilla and Stoker's Dracula MARILYN BROCK Liminality and Power in Bram Stoker's Jewel of Seven Stars KATE HOLTERHOFF Part Three-Fallen Woman, Fallen Man in the Victorian Novel Ruth: An Analysis of the Victorian Signifieds MARIA GRANIC-WHITE Violence as Patrimony in Le Fanu's Uncle Silas STEPHANIE KING In the Company of Men: Masculinity Gone Wild in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde JENNIFER BEAUVAIS Ghostly Absence and Sexual Presence in James's "Owen Wingrave" and "The Jolly Corner" NICHOLAS HARRIS About the Contributors Index
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