Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: E Salotto, E. Salotto
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781349736539
• ISBN: 978-1-349-73653-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 276 g
• Illustrations: IX, 198 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Fiction, Society & culture: general, Film History, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Media and Communication, Literature: history & criticism, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Fiction Literature, Motion pictures—History, Film history, theory & criticism, Charles Dickens;fiction;identity;novel;Victorian era