Gothic Gender An Introduction Donna Heilandauth by Donna Heiland(auth.) 9780470775691, 9780631200499, 0470775696, 0631200495 instant download after payment.

The book concentrates primarily on fiction from the 1760s through the 1840s, exploring the work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, John Polidori, James Malcolm Rymer, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Smith, and Charles Brockden Brown. The final chapter looks at contemporary fiction and its relation to the gothic, including an exploration of Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and Ann-Marie Macdonald’s Fall on Your Knees

A Coda provides an overview of scholarship on the gothic, showing how gothic gradually became a major focus for literary critics, and paying particular attention to the feminist reinvigoration of gothic studies that began in the 1970s and continues today.

Taken as a whole the book offers a stimulating survey of the representation of gender in the gothic, suitable for both students and readers of gothic literature.Content:
Chapter 1 Patriarchal Narratives in the Work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Sophia Lee (pages 8–31):
Chapter 2 The Aesthetic of the Sublime in the Work of Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, and Charles Maturin (pages 32–56):
Chapter 3 Rethinking the Sublime in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe (pages 57–76):
Chapter 4 From the Sublime to the Uncanny: Godwin and Wollslonecrafl (pages 77–97):
Chapter 5 Uncanny Monsters in the Work of Mary Shelley, John Polidori and James Malcolm Rymer (pages 98–113):
Chapter 6 Confronting the Uncanny in Brontes (pages 114–128):
Chapter 7 The “Unhomely” Nation of Gothic Narratives: Charlotte Smith, Charles Brockden Bfowan, and Matthew Lewis (pages 129–155):
Chapter 8 Feminist, Postmodern, Postcolonial: Margaret Alwood and Ann?Marie Macdonald Respond to the Gothic (pages 156–179):