Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction Mapping History's Nightmares

Name: Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction Mapping History's Nightmares
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ISBN: 9780199262182

ISBN-10: 0199262187

ISBN-13: 9780199262182

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert Mighall

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This is the first major full-length study of Victorian Gothic fiction. Combining original readings of familiar texts with a rich store of historical sources, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction is an historicist survey of nineteenth-century Gothic writing - from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle, through European travelogues, sexological textbooks, ecclesiastic histories and pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse. Critics have thus far tended to concentrate on specific angles of Gothic writing (gender or race), or the belief that the Gothic 'returned' at the so-called fin de sicle. Robert Mighall, by contrast, demonstrates how the Gothic mode was active throughout the…

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List price: $91.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.54" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction: Outside in: Gothic Criticism and the Pull into Interiority



History as Nightmare



From Udolpho to Spitalfields: Mapping Gothic London



Haunted Houses I and II



Atavism: A Darwinian Nightmare



Unspeakable Vices: Moral Monstrosity and Representation



Making a Case: Vampirism, Sexuality, and Interpretation


Postscript: From Landscape to Dreamscape: Redrawing the Gothic Map


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