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Female Gothic and the Institutionalization of Gothic Studies
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Does Female Gothic have anything left to offer? Entrenched in Gothic studies for nearly thirty years and increasingly attacked during the last decade, this critical category seems to many to have outlived its usefulness. Nonetheless, there are still critical lessons to be learned from it, as much about the recent history of Gothic criticism as Gothic works themselves. Indeed, we would do well to contemplate what scholarly reputation not only feminist criticism of the Gothic but also Gothic cr...
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Female Gothic and the Institutionalization of Gothic Studies
Gothic Studies
; ... yields a similar concern. Feminist criticism of the 1970s and 1980s is marked by a series of proprietary metaphors, including 'maps', 'territories', 'breaking ground', 'space', and 'landmarks', that, unremarkable individually, suggest a shared perspective when ...
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The Female Gothic: Then and Now
Gothic Studies
; When Ellen Moers first used the term 'Female Gothic' in Literary Women (1976), she thought that it was easily defined as 'the work that women writers have done in the literary mode that, since the eighteenth century, we have called "the Gothic1 A definition of'the Gothic' was, she admitted, less
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Varieties of Female Gothic
Gothic Studies
; Varieties of Female Gothic, edited by Gary Kelly. 6 Volume Set (Pickering and Chatto, London, 2002), ISBN: 2002 85196 717, 2056pp., 495/$840. Volume 1: Enlightenment Gothic and Terror Gothic. General Introduction; Volume introduction; The Champion of Virtue: A Gothic Story (1777), by Clara Reeve;
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Love, Freud, and the Female Gothic: Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars
Gothic Studies
; The most striking phenomenon of his erotic life after maturity was his liability to compulsive attacks of falling physically in love which came on and disappeared again in the most puzzling succession. These attacks released a tremendous energy in him even at times when he was otherwise inhibited,
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(book reviews)
Criticism
; In Art of Darkness, Anne Williams sets out to discover a poetics of Gothic, as her subtitle informs us -- a set of underlying principles associated not only with the literature conventionally grouped under the Gothic rubric but also with its Romantic cousins, though Williams herself resists family
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Uncanny Stories: The Ghost Story As Female Gothic
Gothic Studies
; The ghost story as a form has allowed women writers special kinds of freedom, not merely to include the fantastic and the supernatural, but also to offer critiques of male power and sexuality which are often more radical than those in more realist genres. Despite this, critical accounts of the
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Skin Chairs and other Domestic Horrors: Barbara Comyns and the Female Gothic Tradition
Gothic Studies
; The novels of Barbara Comyns, a neglected British writer, combine literary realism with Gothic interludes and moments of magical realism. Despite attracting very positive reviews when they were published1 and being republished by Virago during the 1980s, most of her novels are not familiar to
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(book review)
CLIO
; Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes. By Diane Long Hoeveler. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xix + 250 pages. In Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes, Diane Long Hoeveler
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'The Desecration of the Temple'; or, 'Sexuality as Terrorism'? Angela Carter's (Post-)feminist Gothic Heroines
Gothic Studies
; Two hundred years ago Ann Radcliffe introduced Gothic conventions into the mainstream of English fiction. For the first time the process of feminine sexual initiation found respectable, secular expression. Yet the terms of this expression were ultimately limiting. It is important to recognize and
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Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience
Gothic Studies
; Femiddal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience by Helne Meyers (New York: SUNY, 2001), 211 pp. In Femiddal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience, Helene Meyers argues compellingly that even though the Gothic offers a lens through which to view violence against women, the
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