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Gothic kinship / edited by Agnes Andeweg and Sue Zlosnik.

Title
Gothic kinship / edited by Agnes Andeweg and Sue Zlosnik.
Publication
  • Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.
  • New York, NY : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Vancouver, BC : Distributed in Canada exclusively by UBC Press.
  • ©2013

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Additional Authors
  • Andeweg, Agnes
  • Zlosnik, Sue, 1949-
Description
xi, 237 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
This work brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorisation of the different appearances of the Gothic family.
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Gothic fiction (Literary genre) > History and criticism
  • Horror films > History and criticism
  • Kinship in literature
  • Families in motion pictures
  • Films d'horreur > Histoire et critique
  • Parenté dans la littérature
  • Familles au cinéma
  • Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
  • Horror films
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Matriarchal picture identification in first-wave British Gothic fiction / Kamilla Elliott -- 'Those most intimately concerned': the strenght of chosen family in Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic short fiction / Ardel Haefele-Thomas -- The madwoman in the attic of Labuwangi: Couperus and colonical Gothic / Rosemarie Buikema -- Seed from the east, seed from the west, which one will turn out best? The demonic adoptee in The bad seed (1954) / Elisabeth Wesseling -- 'Children misbehaving in the walls!' or, Wes Craven's suburban familiy values / Bernice M. Murphy -- Fathers, friends and families: Gothic kinship in Stephen King's Pet sematary / John Sears -- Sisterhood is monstrous: Gothic imagery in Dutch feminist fiction / Agnes Andeweg -- The political uncanny of the family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between and The Civil Partnership Act / Anne Quema -- Violent households: the family destabilized in The Monk (1796), Zofloya, or the Moor (1818) and Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) / Joanne Watkiss -- 'As much a family as anyone could be, anywhere ever': revisioning the family in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost souls / William Hughes -- Gothic half-bloods: maternal kinship in Rowling's Harry Potter series / Ranita Chatterjee -- 'They fuck you up' -- revaluations of the family in contemporary British horror film: Steven Sheil's Mum & Dad / Johannes Schlegel.
ISBN
  • 9780719088605
  • 0719088607
OCLC
  • 855581260
  • SCSB-11117901
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library