ISBN:
3839434688
,
9783839434680
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (233 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Lettre
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bauer, Gero, 1986 - Houses, secrets, and the closet
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 2014
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
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Electronic books
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Englisch
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Gothic novel
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Sensationsroman
;
Männlichkeit
;
Erotik
;
Geschichte 1700-1900
Abstract:
Introduction. Prelude: Bluebeard -- Context: history, houses, and masculinities -- Methods: secrecy, sexuality, and liminal spaces -- Bluebeard's 'closet': gothic novels -- Phallic power: Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto -- The power of absolute spatial access: Ann Radcliffe's The mysteries of Udolpho -- A 'male heroine': William Godwin's Caleb Williams -- The contested secret room: sensation novels. Powerless landlords: Wilkie Collins' The woman in white -- Performing subversion: Wilkie Collins' No name -- A female Bluebeard: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's secret -- Globalising the 'closet': Henry James. Masculine disempowerment in a woman's mansion: Henry James' "The Aspern papers" -- Female power in the cage of knowledge: Henry James' "In the cage" -- Autoerotic paranoia in the 'closet': Henry James' "The jolly corner
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