ISBN:
9781137303493
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (273 p)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Gothic
Series Statement:
Palgrave Gothic Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Wisker, Gina Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction : Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses
DDC:
301
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Ubiquitous Contemporary Gothic -- Contemporary Women's Gothic: Convention and Haunting -- Pivotal Moments in Criticism -- Pivotal Moments: Fictional Texts: Rebecca (1938), Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and The Magic Toyshop (1967) -- Gothic Horror -- History Revisited -- Shape of the Book -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Angela Carter: Living in Gothic Times -- 'The Lady of the House of Love' (1979) and 'The Loves of Lady Purple' (1974): Turning the Tables on Women of the Gothic -- The Magic Toyshop (1967)
Abstract:
De Sade and 'The Bloody Chamber' (1979) -- The Bloody Chamber (1979) -- Nights at the Circus (1987) -- Conclusions: Angela Carter and the Literary Gothic -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Margaret Atwood and Canadian Women's Gothic-Spite, Lies, Split Selves and Self-Deception -- Canadian Gothic and Alice Munro -- Margaret Atwood -- Romantic Gothic Uncloaked: Lady Oracle (1976), Alias Grace (1996), Cat's Eye (1988), The Robber Bride (1993) -- Lady Oracle (1976) -- The Robber Bride (1993): Ghost Tale-Return from the Dead -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
Abstract:
Chapter 4: Cultural Haunting: Toni Morrison and Tananarive Due -- Haunted and Haunting -- Home (2012) -- Tananarive Due, Joplin's Ghost (2006) -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Postcolonial and Cultural Haunting Revenants-Letting the 'Right' Ones in -- Mad Women: Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966) -- Crocodiles and Shape-Shifters: Beth Yahp, The Crocodile Fury (1992) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Testing the Fabric of Bluebeard's Castle: Postcolonial Reconfigurations, Demythologising, Re-Mythologising and Shape-Shifting -- Bluebeard and His House Reshaped
Abstract:
Zombies and Myal, Erna Brodber (1988) -- Nalo Hopkinson: Dismantling 'Massa's House' -- Shani Mootoo: Hothouse Flowers and Shapeshifting-Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) -- Helen Oyeyemi, Mr Fox (2011) -- Postcolonial Feminism Revisited -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Vampire Bites -- History-Vampire Women -- Demon Lovers-Romantic Love, Vampires and Escape -- Revamping the Vampire -- Rock'n' Roll Vampire Transients-Critical Comment -- Interviewing Vampires-Anne Rice -- Lesbian Gothic and Lesbian Vampires -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Vampire Kisses
Abstract:
Vampire Romance, YA Fiction and Mash-Ups -- Twilight for Vampires -- Respectability-Tananarive Due's African Vampires -- Neighborhood Vampire Gothic -- The Edges of England: Seaside Towns and Vampire Sisterhood: Moira Buffini's A Vampire Story (2008) and Byzantium (2013) -- Ana Lily Amirpour, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2013) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Ghostings and Hauntings: Splintering the Fabric of Domestic Gothic -- The Woman in Black (1983)-Susan Hill -- Post-War Ghosts: Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (2009) and Helen Dunmore, The Greatcoat (2012)
Abstract:
The Greatcoat (2012)-Helen Dunmore
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