Horner / Zlosnik Le Gothic

Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-58281-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, eBook

This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horner, Avril

Horner, A.

Zlosnik, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Horner& S.Zlosnik PART ONE: THE PARIS NEXUS Hugo's Notre Dame, Leroux's Fantôme de l'Opéra and the Changing Functions of the Gothic; J.E.Hogle Edgar Allen Poe in Paris: The Flâneur, the Détournement and the Gothic Spaces of the Nineteenth-Century City; L.Blake Blood in Paris: Transformations of Revolutionary Gothic in Henry James and Elizabeth Bowen; R.Ingelbien PART TWO: CHANNEL CROSSINGS The Cult of Rousseau in Women's Gothic Writing in the 1790s; A.Wright Huysmans, Machen and the Gothic Grotesque, Or: The Way Up is the Way Down; A.Milbank Gothic Permutations from the 1790s to the 1970s: Re-thinking the Marquis de Sade's Legacy; M.Vara Dracula's Daughters: Angela Carter and Pierrette Fleutiaux's Vampiric Exchanges; R.Munford PART THREE: TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGES Beast's Triumph over Beauty in Gothic Film; K.J.Gentile 'Who is the third who walks always beside you?': Eliot, Stoker and Stetson in The Waste Land; W.Hughes Calvinist Gothic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, or the Transformation and James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; C.M.Davison Colonial Ghosts: Mimicking Dickens in America; A.Smith PART THREE: CODA: OTHER DIRECTIONS Translating Technologies: Dickens, Kafka and the Gothic; B.Murnane A Voyage through the Phantom Museum; D.Punter Index

Über Autor(innen)

LINNIE BLAKE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
CAROL MARGARET DAVISON is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor, Canada
KATHY JUSTICE GENTILE is Director of the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies and teaches courses in Gothic fiction at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA
JERROLD E. HOGLE is Professor of English, University Distinguished Professor, and Vice Provost for Instruction at the University of Arizona, USA
WILLIAM HUGHES is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University, UK
RAPHAEL INGELBIEN is a Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium
ALISON MILBANK lectures in Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK
REBECCA MUNFORD is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cardiff, UK
BARRY MURNANE is an independent scholar
DAVID PUNTER is Professor of English and Research Dean of Arts at the University of Bristol, UK
ANDREW SMITH is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan, UK
MARIA VARA is a doctoral candidate in the School of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, where she teaches courses in writing and fiction
ANGELA WRIGHT lectures in Romantic and Gothic Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK