Women and the Gothic : : An Edinburgh Companion / / Sue Zlosnik, Avril Horner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Horner, Avril ,; Zlosnik, Sue,
• MitwirkendeR: Armitt, Lucie,; Carpenter, Ginette,; Chaplin, Sue,; Haefele-Thomas, Ardel,; Horner, Avril,; Krzywinska, Tanya,; Mulvey-Roberts, Marie,; Munford, Rebecca,; Spooner, Catherine,; Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence,; Wallace, Diana,; Williams, Anne,; Wisker, Gina,; Wright, Angela,; Zlosnik, Sue,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I Family Matters
• Chapter 1 Heroines in Flight: Narrating Invisibility and Maturity in Women's Gothic Writing of the Romantic Period
• Chapter 2 Madwomen and Attics
• Chapter 3 Mothers and Others
• Chapter 4 The Gothic Girl Child
• Chapter 5 'A Woman's Place'
• Part II Transgressions
• Chapter 6 Wicked Women
• Chapter 7 The Female Gothic Body
• Chapter 8 Spectral Femininity
• Chapter 9 Female Gothic and the Law
• Chapter 10 Female Vampirism
• Part III New Directions
• Chapter 11 Queering the Female Gothic
• Chapter 12 No Country for Old Women: Gender, Age and the Gothic
• Chapter 13 Virtual Gothic Women
• Chapter 14 Formations of Player Agency and Gender in Gothic Games
• Notes on Contributors
• Index