The Contested Castle
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The Contested Castle
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Author : Kate Ferguson Ellis
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1989
The Contested Castle written by Kate Ferguson Ellis and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Contested Castle
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Author : Kate Ferguson Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Contested Castle written by Kate Ferguson Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy
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Author : Alex Eric Hernandez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Making Of British Bourgeois Tragedy written by Alex Eric Hernandez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 'rise of the middle class' in the eighteenth century has long been taken to usher in a prosaic age synonymous with the death of tragedy, an age in which the sheer ordinariness of bourgeois life was both antithetical and inured to the tragic. But the period's literature tells a very different story. Re-assembling a body of print and performance concerned with the misfortunes of the middling sort, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy argues that these works imagined a particularly modern sort of affliction, an 'ordinary suffering' proper to ordinary life, divested of the sorts of meanings, rhetorics, and affective resonances once deployed to understand it. Whereas neoclassical aesthetics aligned tragedy with the heroic and the admirable, this 'bourgeois and domestic tragedy' treated the pain of common people with dignity and seriousness, meditating upon a suffering that was homely, familiar, entangled in the nascent values of capitalism, yet no less haunted by God. Hence, where many have seen aesthetic stagnation, misfiring emotion, and the absence of an idealized tragicness in the genre, this volume sees instead a sustained engagement in the emotional processes and representational techniques through which the middle rank feels its way into modernity. By attending closely to this long neglected subject, The Making of British Bourgeois Tragedy turns the critical account of eighteenth-century tragedy on its head. It reads the genre's emergence in the period as a vigorous cultural conversation on whose life--and whose way of life--is grievable, as well as how mourning might be performed
Winchester Salisbury Exeter Wells
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Author : Richard John King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Winchester Salisbury Exeter Wells written by Richard John King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.
History Of The Gothic Twentieth Century Gothic
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Author : Lucie Armitt
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2011-01-15
History Of The Gothic Twentieth Century Gothic written by Lucie Armitt and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why, at a time when the majority of us no longer believe in ghosts, demons or the occult, does Gothic continue to have such a strong grasp upon literature, cinema and popular culture? This book answers the question by exploring some of the ways in which we have applied Gothic tropes to our everyday fears. The book opens with The Turn of the Screw, a text dealing in the dangers adults pose to children whilst simultaneously questioning the assumed innocence of all children. Staying with the domestic arena, it explores the various manifestations undertaken by the haunted house during the twentieth century, from the bombed-out spaces of the blitz ('The Demon Lover' and The Night Watch) to the designer bathrooms of wealthy American suburbia (What Lies Beneath). The monsters that emerge through the uncanny surfaces of the Gothic can also be terror monsters, and after a discussion of terrorism and atrocity in relation to burial alive, the book examines the relationship between the human and the inhuman through the role of the beast monster as manifestation of the evil that resides in our midst (The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Birds). It is with the dangers of the body that the Gothic has been most closely associated and, during the later twentieth century, paranoia attaches itself to skeletal forms and ghosts in the wake of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Sexuality and/as disease is one of the themes of Patrick McGrath's work (Dr Haggard's Disease and 'The Angel') and the issue of skeletons in the closet is also explored through Henry James's 'The Jolly Corner'. However, sexuality is also one of the most liberating aspects of Gothic narratives. After a brief discussion of camp humour in British television drama series Jekyll, the book concludes with a discussion of the apparitional lesbian through the work of Sarah Waters.
Handbook To The Cathedrals Of England
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Author : Richard John King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Handbook To The Cathedrals Of England written by Richard John King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Cathedrals categories.
Handbook To The Cathedrals Of England Winchester Salisbury Exeter Wells Pt Ii Canterbury Rochester Chichester St Albans
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Author : Richard John King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Handbook To The Cathedrals Of England Winchester Salisbury Exeter Wells Pt Ii Canterbury Rochester Chichester St Albans written by Richard John King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Cathedrals categories.
Monumental Brasses Of Wiltshire
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Author : Edward Kite
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
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Varieties Of Female Gothic Vol 1
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Author : Gary Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-27
Varieties Of Female Gothic Vol 1 written by Gary Kelly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It illustrates the various forms of female Gothic literature as a vehicle for representing the modern forms of subjectivity, or complex and authentic inward experience and identity.
Special Relationships
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Author : Janet Beer
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2002
Special Relationships written by Janet Beer and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Opening up readings of writers in the growing field of transatlanticism, this text discusses diverse and innovative interventions in the field of Anglo-American literary relations, revealing previously unresearched connections between writers on both sides of the Atlantic.