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An evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and a critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du Maurier's Gothic fictions reflect both personal and broader cultural anxieties concerning sexual and social identity.
This thoroughly expanded and updated edition provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on 'Global Gothic' reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade.
Surrealism and the Gothic: castles of the interior
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Surrealism and the Gothic is the first book-length analysis of the role played by the gothic in both the initial emergence of surrealism and at key moments in its subsequent development as an art and literary movement. The book argues the strong and sustained influence, not only…
"Throughout nineteenth-century Britain, female writers excelled within the genre of supernatural literature. Much of their short fiction and poetry uses ghosts as figures to symbolize the problems of gender, class, economics, and imperialism, thus making their supernatural liter…
The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and unc…
Introduction -- Chapter one: haunting ground -- Chapter two: bio shock -- Chapter three: gone home -- Chapter four: what remains of Edith Finch -- Chapter five: night in the woods -- Conclusion. "This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videoga…
"This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design. Through a series of detailed case studies, the author illustrates the ways particular tropes of Gothic culture - neo-medieval aesthetics, secret-filled labyrinthine spaces, the sense of…
"This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design. Through a series of detailed case studies, the author illustrates the ways particular tropes of Gothic culture - neo-medieval aesthetics, secret-filled labyrinthine spaces, the sense of…