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Gothic Landscapes: Changing Eras, Changing Cultures, Changing Anxieties

Gothic Landscapes: Changing Eras, Changing Cultures, Changing Anxieties

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3319331647
ISBN13: 9783319331645
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 23 2016
Pages: 315
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Introduction. Haunted Landscapes and Fearful Spaces: Expanding Views on the Geography of the Gothic; Sharon Rose Yang and Kathleen Healey.- PART I: CROSS-GENRE: HIDEOUS HYBRIDS/HYBRIDS OF HORROR.- 1. Dark Shadows in the Promised Land: Landscapes of Terror and the Visual Arts in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly; Kathleen Healey.- 2. Haunting Landscapes in Female Gothic Thriller Films: From Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles; Sheri Chinen Biesen.- 3. Beauty Sleeping in the Lap of Horror Landscape Aesthetics and Gothic Pleasures, from The Castle of Otranto to Video Games; Alice Davenport.- PART II: DARKNESS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES: NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S HAUNTED CASTLE.- 4. What the Green Grass Hides: Denial and Deception in Suburban Detroit; Amber Vayo.- 5. Go steady, Undine! The Horror of Ambition in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country; Myrto Drizou.- 6. The Convent as Coven: Gothic Implications of Women-Centered Illness and Healing Narratives in Toni Morrison's Paradise; Belinda M. Waller-Peterson.- 7. Haunting Memories: Gothic and Memoir; Erica Moore.- PART III: GOTHIC SOCIAL LANDSCAPES.- 8. The Indian Gothic; Nalini Pai.- 9. St. Bernard's: Terrors of the Light in the Gothic Hospital; Christy Rieger.- 10. Nature Selects the Horla: How the Concept of Natural Selection Influences Guy de Maupassant's Horror Tale; Sharon Rose Yang.- 11. Ruins of Empire: Refashioning the Gothic in J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun (1984); Alex Watson.- 12. Gothic Landscapes in Mary Butts's Ashe of Rings; Roslyn Reso Foy.- Index.-

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