Description: Gothic and Gender : An Introduction, Paperback by Heiland, Donna, ISBN 0631200509, ISBN-13 9780631200505, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland's Gothic and Gender offers a historically informed theoretical introduction to key gothic narratives from a feminist perspective. Th concentrates primarily on fiction from the 1760s through the 1840s, exploring the work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, John Polidori, James Malcolm Rymer, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Smith, and Charles Brockden Brown. The final chapter looks at contemporary fiction and its relation to the gothic, including an exploration of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees A Coda provides an overview of scholarship on the gothic, showing how gothic gradually became a major focus for literary critics, and paying particular attention to the feminist reinvigoration of gothic studies that began in the 1970s and continues today. Taken as a whole th offers a stimulating survey of the representation of gender in the gothic, suitable for both students and readers of gothic literature.
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Book Title: Gothic and Gender : An Introduction
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Gothic and Gender : an Introduction
Language: English
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Publication Year: 2004
Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Horror & Supernatural, Women Authors, Gender Studies, Gothic & Romance, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 12.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Author: Donna Heiland
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
