Gothic kinship (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Andeweg, Agnes; Zlosnik, Sue

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526103048
• Artikelnr.: 48796347

Autorenporträt

Agnes Andeweg is a lecturer and tutor at University College Utrecht Sue Zlosnik is Emeritus Professor of Gothic Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Agnes Andeweg and Sue Zlosnik 2. Matriarchal picture
identification in first-wave British Gothic fiction - Kamilla Elliott 3.
'Those most intimately concerned': the strength of chosen family in
Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic short fiction - Ardel Haefele-Thomas 4. The mad
woman in the attic of Labuwangi: Couperus and colonial Gothic -Rosemarie
Buikema 5. Seed from the east, seed from the west, which one will turn out
best? The demonic adoptee in The Bad Seed (1954) -Elisabeth Wesseling 6.
'Children misbehaving in the walls!' or, Wes Craven's suburban family
values - Bernice M. Murphy 7. Fathers, friends, and families: Gothic
kinship in Stephen King's Pet Sematary - John Sears 8. Sisterhood is
monstrous: Gothic imagery in Dutch feminist fiction - Agnes Andeweg 9. The
political uncanny of the family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space
Between and The Civil Partnership Act - Anne Quéma 10. Violent households:
the family destabilised in The Monk (1796), Zofloya, or the Moor (1818),
and Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) - Joanne Watkiss 11. 'As much a family as
anyone could be, anywhere ever': revisioning the family in Poppy Z. Brite's
Lost Souls - William Hughes 12. Gothic half bloods: maternal kinship in
Rowling's Harry Potter series - Ranita Chatterjee 13. 'They fuck you up' -
revaluations of the family in contemporary British horror film: Steven
Sheil's Mum & Dad - Johannes Schlegel Index