The Female Gothic: New Directions [Hardcover]

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.Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic; D.Wallace ?& A.Smith Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies; L.Fitzgerald 'The haunting idea': female Gothic metaphors and feminist theory; D.Wallace 'Mother Radcliff': Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic; R.Miles Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels; A.Wright Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Grotesque; A.Milbank From Bluebeard's Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic; M.Mulvey-Roberts Keeping it in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch; A.Horner ?& S.Zlosnik ? 'I Don't Want to be a [White] Girl': Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic; M.Miller Children of the night: Shirley Jackson's Domestic Female Gothic; A.Smith Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love ; A.Heise-von der Lippe 'Unhomely moments': Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic; K.Bohata Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction; C.M.Davison IndexDIANA WALLACE is Reader in English?at the University of Glamorgan, UK. She is the author of?The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 (2005)?and Sisters and Rivals in British Women's Fiction, 1914-39 (2000), and co-editor (with Andrew Smith) of a special edition of Gothic Studies on 'The Female Gothic' (2004).?

ANDREW SMITH is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan, UK where he is Co-Direcló