Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

Women and the Gothic

An Edinburgh Companion

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Edited by Avril Horner, Kingston University, Sue Zlosnik, Manchester Metropolitan University

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: September 2017
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9780748699131

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies

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This collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of ‘Women and the Gothic’.

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An Edinburgh Companion

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-12

Part I - Family Matters
pp 13-14

1 - Heroines in Flight: Narrating Invisibility and Maturity in Women's Gothic Writing of the Romantic Period
pp 15-30

2 - Madwomen and Attics
pp 31-45

3 - Mothers and Others
pp 46-59

4 - The Gothic Girl Child
pp 60-73

5 - ‘A Woman's Place’
pp 74-88

Part II - Trangressions
pp 89-90

6 - Wicked Women
pp 91-105

7 - The Female Gothic Body
pp 106-119

8 - Spectral Femininity
pp 120-134

9 - Female Gothic and the Law
pp 135-149

10 - Female Vampirism
pp 150-166

Part III - New Directions
pp 167-168

11 - Queering the Female Gothic
pp 169-183

12 - No Country for Old Women: Gender, Age and the Gothic
pp 184-198

13 - Virtual Gothic Women
pp 199-213

14 - Formations of Player Agency and Gender in Gothic Games
pp 214-227

Notes on Contributors
pp 228-231

Index
pp 232-239

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