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The Contested Castle
Author | : Kate Ferguson Ellis |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0252060482 |
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The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture--the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic--and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place. Linking terror -- the most important ingredient of the Gothic novel -- to acts of transgression, Ellis shows how houses in Gothic fiction imprison those inside them, while those locked outside wander the earth plotting their return and their revenge.
Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology
Author | : Kate Ferguson Ellis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0252060482 |
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Houses Secrets and the Closet
Author | : Gero Bauer |
Publsiher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783839434680 |
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»Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the ›closet‹ - the male homosexual secret - which reveals a more general notion of male secrecy in modern society. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the cultural history of masculinities and sexualities.
The Contested Crown
Author | : Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2022-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226802237 |
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Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, emperor of the Aztecs. This crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles, and it is one of the most contested museum claims between Europe and the Americas. Taken to Europe during the conquest of Mexico, it was placed at Ambras Castle, the Habsburg residence of the author’s ancestors, and is now in Vienna’s Welt Museum. Mexico has long requested to have it back, but the Welt Museum uses science to insist it is too fragile to travel. Both the biography of a cultural object and a history of collecting and colonizing, this book offers an artist’s perspective on the creative potentials of repatriation. Carroll compares Holocaust and colonial ethical claims, and she considers relationships between indigenous people, international law and the museums that amass global treasures, the significance of copies, and how conservation science shapes collections. Illustrated with diagrams and rare archival material, this book brings together global history, European history, and material culture around this fascinating object and the debates about repatriation.
Queer Gothic
Author | : George E. Haggerty |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Gothic revival (Literature) |
ISBN | : 9780252073533 |
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George Haggerty examines the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss as the foreclosure of homoerotic possibility and the relationship between transgressive sexual behaviors and a range of religious behaviors understood as 'Catholic'.
Property and Power in English Gothic Literature
Author | : Ruth Bienstock Anolik |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2015-12-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780786498505 |
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Eighteenth-century England witnessed major social and economic changes, including the commodification of property, person and text through legal containments--enclosure, coverture, primogeniture, copyright. English Gothic authors responded with tropes that worked to dispel the assurances of possession--the contested castle, the beleaguered yet enduring woman, the haunting ghost, the disjointed narrative--warning that seemingly mundane codes of ownership have menacing implications, such as the civil death of women through marriage. This book explores the masterplot of the English Gothic text as a response to the Enlightenment's rational certainty regarding possession of self, property and narrative.
Three Perils of Man
Author | : James Hogg |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2019-07-31 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : 9781474469258 |
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This is one of Hogg's longest and also one of his most original and daring works. Gillian Hughes's uncovering of the original manuscript in the Fales Library of New York University in August 2001 allows the editors to produce here a text that reflects Hogg's original intentions. Alongside the two main plots (the supernatural located at Aikwood Castle and the chivalric located at Roxburgh Castle) a series of embedded narratives provides the reader with, amongst other things, pictures of the traditional and timeless world of rural life in which Hogg had grown up and of early Scottish history. The name Sir Walter Scott (used through most of the manuscript) is restored and passages excised from the manuscript or omitted when the printed edition was prepared are included in the editorial apparatus. In several cases Hogg's more daringly explicit language has been brought back where the printed edition has bowdlerised or subdued the expression. The restoration of the name in particular makes explicit how much this novel represents a challenge to Scott's dominance in the portrayal of chivalry and the Middle Ages in general. Any attempt to assess Hogg as a major novelist, and in particular as a major historical novelist, must consider this edition of The Three Perils of Man.
History of the Gothic Gothic Literature 1764 1824
Author | : Carol Margaret Davison |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781783163878 |
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This title offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-category of the Female Gothic designed for the student reader. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social and political history and significant intellectual/cultural developments. Identification and interpretation of the Gothic’s variously reconfigured major motifs and conventions is provided alongside suggestions for further critical reading, a timeline of notable Gothic-related publications, and consideration of various theoretical approaches.