Gothic Britain (eBook)

Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles

William Hughes, Ruth Heholt (Herausgeber)

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2018
272 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-234-4 (ISBN)

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Gothic Britain is a collection of twelve original essays, each of which considers how the stylistics of Gothic have been applied to the regions and borderlands of Great Britain. Covering works in several media which depict the marginal spaces of England, Scotland and Wales, as well as Cornwall and the Isle of Man, Gothic Britain is a collection that will support students and researchers at all levels.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: William Hughes, ‘The Uncanny Space of Regionality: Gothic Beyond the Metropolis’
Part One: Re-imagined Gothic Landscapes: Folklore, Nostalgia and History
Chapter One: Catherine Spooner, ‘“Dark, and cold, and rugged is the North”: Regionalism, Folklore and Elizabeth Gaskell’s “Northern” Gothic’
Chapter Two:Chloe Buckley, ‘Jeremy Dyson’s The Haunted Book (2012), the Gothic Child and the West Yorkshire Moors’
Chapter Three: Richard Storer, ‘“Spook Business”: Hall Caine and the Moment of Manx Gothic’
Chapter Four:Gioia Angelletti, ‘“All those ancient stories that had their dark souls located in woods”: Rural Gothic, Scottish Folklore and Postmodern Conundrums in James Robertson’s The Testament of Gideon Mack’
Part Two: Unnatural Gothic Spaces
Chapter Five: Timothy Jones, ‘Entering the Darkness: Robert Aickman and the Regions’
Chapter Six: Minna Vuohelainen, ‘University Gothic 1880-1910’
Chapter Seven: Holly-Gale Millette, ‘Vampiristic Museums and Library Gothic’
Part Three: Border Crossings and the Threat of Invasion
Chapter Eight: Jamil Mustafa, ‘Lifting the Veil: Allegory, Ambivalence and the (Scottish) Gothic in Walter Scott’s Union Fiction’
Chapter Nine: Ben Richardson, ‘Cosmopolis Fever: Regionalism and Immunity in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826)’
Chaper Ten: Ruth Heholt, ‘The Hammer House of Cornish Horror: The Inversion of Imperial Gothic in The Plague of the Zombies and The Reptile’
Chapter Eleven: Sara Ilott, ‘Black Immigrant/White Cliffs: Dover Gothic and the Borders of Britishness’
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Gothic Literary Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Gothic Literary Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Britain • British • Dark • Gothic • isles • margins • of • Places • Provinces
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-234-8 / 1786832348
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-234-4 / 9781786832344