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9780786440214

From Wollstonescraft to Stoker

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  • ISBN13:

    9780786440214

  • ISBN10:

    078644021X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-07-15
  • Publisher: McFarland Publishing
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Summary

This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Bronte. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements, such as dark secrets and forbidden sensations, to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.

Author Biography

Editor Marilyn Brock is an adjunct English professor. She has published short fiction in Miranda Literary Magazine, Planet Magazine and other literary journals. She lives in Huntington Beach, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. v
Introductionp. 1
The Instability of Identity: Character, Class, and Gender
Desire and Fear: Feminine Abjection in the Gothic Fiction ofp. 17
"The Maiden Felt Hot Pain": Agency and Passivity in the Work of Letitia Elizabeth Landonp. 30
"Portrait of a governess, disconnected, poor, and plain": Staging the Spectral Self in Charlotte Brontëet;'s Jane Eyrep. 49
A Shock to the System, a System to the Shocks: The Horrors of the "Happy Ending" in The Woman in Whitep. 62
Hysterical Sensations: Bodies in Action in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in Whitep. 79
The Colonial Context of Gothic and Sensation Fiction
Sensations Down Under: Australia's Seismic Charge in Great Expectations and Lady Audley's Secretp. 91
Reading Between the (Blood)lines of Victorian Vampires: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne"p. 102
The Vamp and the Good English Mother: Female Roles in Le Fanu's Carmilla and Stoker's Draculap. 120
Liminality and Power in Bram Stoker's Jewel of Seven Starsp. 132
Fallen Woman, Fallen Man in the Victorian Novel
Ruth: An Analysis of the Victorian Signifiedsp. 147
Violence as Patrimony in Le Fanu's Uncle Silasp. 164
In the Company of Men: Masculinity Gone Wild in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hydep. 172
Ghostly Absence and Sexual Presence in James's "Owen Wingrave" and "The Jolly Corner"p. 193
About the Contributorsp. 207
Indexp. 211
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