A geography of Victorian Gothic fiction : mapping history's nightmares

Author:Robert Mighall

Summary:This historical survey of Victorian Gothic fiction offers original readings of familiar texts, from Dickens to Stoker, Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle; but also includes a rich store of original sources, from European travelogues to sexological textbooks, from ecclesiastic histories to pamphlets on the perils of self-abuse.

Print Book, English, 2003

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003

Genre:Criticism, interpretation, etc

Physical Description:XXV, 312 Seiten : Porträts ; 22 cm

ISBN:

9780199262182, 9780198184720, 0199262187, 0198184727

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:249561000

Contents:

Introduction: Outside in: Gothic Criticism and the Pull into Interiority ; 1. History as Nightmare ; 2. From Udolpho to Spitalfields: Mapping Gothic London ; 3. Haunted Houses I and II ; 4. Atavism: A Darwinian Nightmare ; 5. Unspeakable Vices: Moral Monstrosity and Representation ; 6. Making a Case: Vampirism, Sexuality, and Interpretation ; Postcript: From Landscape to Dreamscape: Redrawing the Gothic Map ; Bibliography ; Index

Notes:

Originally published: 1999