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Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Umfang:
viii, 233 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780786498505
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index
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Introduction. Possessions: property and propriety in the English Gothic modeCastle and moat: property possession in the English Gothic. Slippery properties: The castle of Otranto and The old English baron -- A century of loss: historical contexts for property anxieties -- Fantasies of return: property restoration imagined -- Nineteenth-century expansions -- Ghosts: possession of person in the English Gothic. Self-(dis)possession in The woman in white -- Dispossessions of the mind and the body: a Gothic tropology -- The double and the ghost: refusals of self-(dis)possession -- Resurrection fantasies: defying death's dispossessions -- Slavery and marriage: Gothic reflections of political rhetoric -- Missing mothers and suppressed sisters: the dangers of primogeniture -- Fragmented stories: appropriated voices: possession of the narrative in the English Gothic -- Gothic conventions: narrative dispossessions -- Contexts of contested narratives: can the text be possessed? -- The theology of narrative dispossession in Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer -- Dispossessed and dispossessing: the wandering Jew's possession of voice and narrative -- Beyond the end: dispossessing closure. "'It is only the theory I want': repossessing fiction in Sarah Waters's Affinity -- The political fantastic -- Conclusion. Toward a transatlantic investigation: possession and dispossession in American Gothic literature.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781476622644
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
;
Gothic novel
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Besitz
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