E. Salotto

Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at the gothic in Victorian fiction, the development of cinema and Hitchcock's Vertigo , this book explores the contained or repressed desires of both characters and plots which defy direct representation, resulting in obsession, fetishism and displacement engendering a novel account of the way in which the gothic becomes internalized.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-73653-9
• 1st ed. 2006
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781349736539
• ISBN-10: 1349736538
• Artikelnr.: 45068830

Autorenporträt

ELEANOR SALOTTO is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Film Studies at Sweet Briar College, USA, where she teaches courses in Nineteenth-century British and continental literature and film studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Haunted Hotel and the Ghostly Feminine Gothic Fragments: Wordless Narration in The Woman in White Phantasmagorical Narration in Bleak House Shadowing the Dead: First Person Narration in Our Mutual Friend Shopping for an 'I': The Ladies' Paradise and the Spectacle of Identity She's Not There: Vertigo and the Ghostly Feminine Grave Narrations: Dickens and the Novel Conclusion

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