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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: E Salotto, E. Salotto
• Edition: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781349736539
• ISBN: 978-1-349-73653-9
• Pages: 198
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Poids: 276 g
• Illustrations: IX, 198 p.
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Autres langues / Autres littératures; 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