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Property and power in English Gothic literature
- Title
- Property and power in English Gothic literature / Ruth Bienstock Anolik.
- Author
- Anolik, Ruth Bienstock, 1952-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- viii, 233 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Possessions: property and propriety in the English Gothic mode -- Part I. Castle and moat: property possession in the English Gothic. Slippery properties: The castle of Otranto and The old English baron -- A century of loss: historical contexts for property anxieties -- Fantasies of return: property restoration imagined -- Nineteenth-century expansions -- Part II. Ghosts: possession of person in the English Gothic. Self-(dis)possession in The woman in white -- Dispossessions of the mind and the body: a Gothic tropology -- The double and the ghost: refusals of self-(dis)possession -- Resurrection fantasies: defying death's dispossessions -- Slavery and marriage: Gothic reflections of political rhetoric -- Missing mothers and suppressed sisters: the dangers of primogeniture -- Part III. Fragmented stories: appropriated voices: possession of the narrative in the English Gothic -- Gothic conventions: narrative dispossessions -- Contexts of contested narratives: can the text be possessed? -- The theology of narrative dispossession in Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer -- Dispossessed and dispossessing: the wandering Jew's possession of voice and narrative -- Part IV. Beyond the end: dispossessing closure. "It is only the theory I want": repossessing fiction in Sarah Waters's Affinity -- The political fantastic -- Conclusion. Toward a transatlantic investigation: possession and dispossession in American Gothic literature.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-1660
- ISBN
- 9780786498505
- 0786498501
- 9781476622644 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015035357
- OCLC
- 936527575
- Author
- Anolik, Ruth Bienstock, 1952- author.
- Title
- Property and power in English Gothic literature / Ruth Bienstock Anolik.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-1660