Contemporary Women S Gothic Fiction

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137303493

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Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction by Gina Wisker Pdf

This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women’s ghost stories.

Author : A. Soon,Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137532916

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Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives by A. Soon,Andrew Hock Soon Ng Pdf

Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it. Approaching novels and films such as Beloved and The Exorcist , this study intersects psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and various spatial theories.

Author : D. Wallace,A. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230245457

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The Female Gothic by D. Wallace,A. Smith Pdf

This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions.

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082641561X

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Horror Fiction by Gina Wisker Pdf

This is a series of introductory books about different types of writing. One strand of the series focuses on genres such asScience Fiction, Horror, Romance, and Crime, and the other focuses on movements or styles often associated with historicaland cultural locations—Postcolonial, Native American, Scottish, Irish, American Gothic.Authors covered in this volume includeWilliam Peter Blatty, Ira Levine, BramStoker, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter,Mary Shelley, Stephen King, Anne Rice,and Washington Irving.

Author : Diane Setterfield
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371935

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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Pdf

A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Thirteenth Tale is part contemporary, part historical with mysterious threads about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling weaving the two together. All children mythologize their birth . . . So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish histories for herself. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary past. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman who is struck by a very curious parallel between Winter's life and her own. As Vida exposes the history she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness, of a remote estate, feral children, a governess, a ghost, and a devastating fire. In this love letter to reading, Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday world.

Author : E. J. Clery
Publisher : Writers and Their Work (Paperb
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746311448

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Women's Gothic by E. J. Clery Pdf

Female writers of Gothic were hell-raisers in more than one sense: not only did they specialize in evoking scenes of horror, cruelty, and supernaturalism, but in doing so they exploded the literary conventions of the day, and laid claim to realms of the imagination hitherto reserved for men. They were rewarded with popular success, large profits, and even critical adulation. E. J. Clery's acclaimed study tells the strange but true story of women's Gothic. She identifies contemporary fascination with the operation of the passions and the example of the great tragic actress Sarah Siddons as enabling factors, and then examines in depth the careers of two pioneers of the genre, Clara Reeve and Sophia Lee, its reigning queen, Ann Radcliffe, and the daring experimentalists Joanna Baillie and Charlotte Dacre. The account culminates with Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein (1818) has attained mythical status. Students and scholars as well as general readers will find Women's Gothic a stimulating introduction to an important literary mode.

Author : Diane Long Hoeveler
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271040974

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Gothic Feminism by Diane Long Hoeveler Pdf

As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier work in Romantic Androgyny, Diane Long Hoeveler now examines the Gothic novels of Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Dacre Byrne, Mary Shelley, and the Bront&ës to show how these writers helped define femininity for women of the British middle class. Hoeveler argues that a female-created literary ideology, now known as &"victim feminism,&" arose as the Gothic novel helped create a new social role of professional victim for women adjusting to the new bourgeois order. These novels were thinly disguised efforts at propagandizing a new form of conduct for women, teaching that &"professional femininity&"&—a cultivated pose of wise passiveness and controlled emotions&—best prepared them for social survival. She examines how representations of both men and women in these novels moved from the purely psychosexual into social and political representations, and how these writers constructed a series of ideologies that would allow their female characters&—and readers&—fictitious mastery over an oppressive social and political system. Gothic Feminism takes a neo-feminist approach to these women's writings, treating them not as sacred texts but as thesis-driven works that attempted to instruct women in a series of strategic poses. It offers both a new understanding of the genre and a wholly new interpretation of feminism as a literary ideology.

Author : Helene Meyers
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791451518

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Femicidal Fears by Helene Meyers Pdf

Argues that contemporary female Gothic novels of death can, in fact, breathe new life into feminist debates about victimization, essentialism, agency, and the body.

Author : Bradford Morrow,Patrick McGrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
ISBN : 0330330659

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Picador Book of the New Gothic by Bradford Morrow,Patrick McGrath Pdf

Author : Avril Horner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474409513

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Women and the Gothic by Avril Horner Pdf

A re-assessment of the Gothic in relation to the female, the 'feminine', feminism and post-feminismThis collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of 'Women and the Gothic'. The 14 chapters in this volume engage with debates about 'Female Gothic' from the 1970s and '80s, through second wave feminism, theorisations of gender and a long interrogation of the 'women' category as well as with the problematics of post-feminism, now itself being interrogated by a younger generation of women. The contributors explore Gothic works from established classics to recent films and novels from feminist and post-feminist perspectives. The result is a lively book that combines rigorous close readings with elegant use of theory in order to question some ingrained assumptions about women, the Gothic and identity.Key FeaturesRevitalises the long-running debate about women, the Gothic and identityEngages with the political agendas of feminism and post-feminismPrioritises the concerns of woman as reader, author and criticOffers fresh readings of both classic and recent Gothic works

Author : Gina Wisker,Leanne Bibby,Heidi Yeandle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031280931

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Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing by Gina Wisker,Leanne Bibby,Heidi Yeandle Pdf

This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century. Writing about the relationships between women’s writings is an always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is, for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.

Author : Juliann E. Fleenor
Publisher : Eden Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015006246378

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The Female Gothic by Juliann E. Fleenor Pdf

Author : Leanna Renee Hieber
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781402260537

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Darker Still by Leanna Renee Hieber Pdf

A lush gothic tale that begs for reading...I couldn't put it down." —New York Times bestselling author Sarah Maclean I was obssessed. It was as if he called to me, demanding I reach out and touch the brushstrokes of color swirled onto the canvas. It was the most exquisite portrait I'd ever seen—everything about Lord Denbury was unbelievable...utterly breathtaking and eerily lifelike. There was a reason for that. Because despite what everyone said, Denbury never had committed suicide. He was alive. Trapped within his golden frame. I've crossed over into his world within the painting, and I've seen what dreams haunt him. They haunt me too. He and I are inextricably linked—bound together to watch the darkness seeping through the gas-lit cobblestone strets of Manhattan. And unless I can free him soon, things will only get Darker Still. Magic Most Foul Series: Darker Still (Book 1) The Twisted Tragedy of Miss Natalie Stewart (Book 2)

Author : Kathleen Hudson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786836113

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Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic by Kathleen Hudson Pdf

This edited collection examines Gothic works written by women authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a specific focus on the novels and chapbooks produced by less widely commercially and critically popular writers. Bringing these authors to the forefront of contemporary critical examinations of the Gothic, chapters in this collection examine how these works impacted the development of ‘women’s writing’ and Gothic writing during this time. Offering readers an original look at the literary landscape of the period and the roles of the creative women who defined it, the collection argues that such works reflected a female-centred literary subculture defined by creative exchange and innovation, one that still shapes perceptions of the Gothic mode today. This collection, then, presents an alternative understanding of the legacy of women Gothic authors, anchoring this understanding in complex historical and social contexts and providing a new world of Gothic literature for readers to explore.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350227057

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Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds by Simon Bacon Pdf

Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populism, the Alt. Right, and isolationism in world politics in the second decade of the 21st Century, parallel, purgatorial worlds seem to currently proliferate within popular culture across all media, including television shows and films such as The Handmaids Tale, Us, Watchmen, and Margaret Atwood's The Testaments among many others. These texts depict alternate worlds that express the darkness and violence of our own, arguably none more so than for women. Featuring essays from a broad range of international contributors on topics as wide-ranging as mental health in the Silent Hill franchise and liminal spaces in the work of David Mitchell, this book is an original, timely and hope-filled analysis about overcoming the confines of a patriarchal, fundamentalist world where the female imaginative might just be the last, best hope.