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Peripheral fear : transformations of the gothic in Canadian and Australian fiction / Gerry Turcotte.

Title
Peripheral fear : transformations of the gothic in Canadian and Australian fiction / Gerry Turcotte.
Author
Turcotte, Gerry
Publication
Bruxelles ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009.

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Description
259 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
New comparative poetics ; no. 21
Uniform Title
Nouvelle poétique comparatiste no. 21.
Subject
  • Gothic revival (Literature) > Canada
  • Gothic revival (Literature) > Australia
  • Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Canadian > History and criticism
  • Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Australian > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Old world gothic : background and sources -- Theorizing colonial gothic -- Gothic influences to the first novels -- Three nineteenth-century gothic novels : Wacousta, His natural life and A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder -- "Convicts to Australia--bastards to Canada" : the metaphysical gothic of Patrick White and Robertson Davies -- "Speaking the formula of abjection" : hybrids and gothic discourses in Louis Nowra's novels -- The gothic and sexuality : Marian Engel's Bear and Elizabeth Jolley's The well -- "A shocking bad book to be sure, sir" : the gothic as counter-discursive strategy in Margaret Atwood's and Kate Grenville's fiction.
ISBN
  • 9789052014883
  • 9052014884
LCCN
^^2009008645
OCLC
  • 461329761
  • SCSB-12851115
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library