Research Catalog

Title

Gothic forms of feminine fictions / Susanne Becker.

Author

Becker, Susanne

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

x, 335 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This is a study of the powers of Gothic in late 20th-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, 200 years after it emerged, exhibits unchanged vitality in our media age and its obsession with incessant stimulation and excitement.

Subject

• Zielke-Nadkarni, Andrea 1956-
• Sainsbury, Brendan
• 1900-1999
• Canadian fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
• Women and literature > Canada > History > 20th century
• Horror tales, Canadian > History and criticism
• Gothic revival (Literature) > Canada
• Women in literature

Genre/Form

• Horror films
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-324) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. Gothic forms -- feminine texts -- Ch. 1. Gothic contextualisation -- Ch. 2. Gothic texture -- Ch. 3. Gothic intertextuality -- Pt. II. Neo-gothicism: from houses of fiction to textures of dress -- Ch. 4. Exploring gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women -- Ch. 5. Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle -- Ch. 6. Stripping the gothic: Aritha van Herk and No Fixed Address -- Pt. III. Gothic times again: Two hundred years after Radcliffe -- Ch. 7. The neo-gothic experience -- Ch. 8. Exceeding postmodernism -- Ch. 9. Global escapes: nineties' gothica.

ISBN

• 0719053307
• 0719053315 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00303560^

OCLC

• 41339678
• SCSB-13364222

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library