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Nostalgia or perversion? : Gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day  Cover Image E-book E-book

Nostalgia or perversion? : Gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day / edited by Isabella van Elferen.

Elferen, Isabella van. (Added Author).

Summary:

Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day presents an interdisciplinary approach to an important aspect of Gothic texts, films, and music: that of rewriting. From the eighteenth-century Gothic novel to pre.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781443807456
  • ISBN: 1443807451
  • ISBN: 1282191195
  • ISBN: 9781282191198
  • ISBN: 9786612191190
  • ISBN: 6612191198
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) : illustrations
  • Publisher: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
" ... the conference 'Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Victorian Age until the Present Day' ... Ravenstein ... 2005"--Page 9
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-260).
Formatted Contents Note:
Gothic's double gesture : Nostalgia, Perversion, and Repetition in Gothic Rewritings / Jennifer E. Dunn -- "There's No Place Like Home?" : Nostalgia, Perversion, and Trauma in the Female Gothic / Carol Margaret Davison -- A Postscript to Transgression : The Gothic in Georges Bataille's Dissident Avant-Gardism / Joost de Bloois -- "Evil is a Point of View" : Anne Rice's (Post- ) Modern Vampire / Sandra Hessels -- Gothic Transformations : Revisiting The House on the Borderland / Zuleyha Cetiner-Oktem -- Literature from a Cultural Ecological Perspective : Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers / Funda Civelekoglu -- Celts, Crusaders, and Clerics : The "Medieval" in Gothic Music / Rebekah Ahrendt -- Rewriting the Dead : The Tension between Nostalgia and Perversion in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) / Harun Maye -- Hollow Spaces of Psyche : Gothic Trance-Formation from Joy Division to Diary of Dreams / Atte Oksanen -- The Ghost in the Closet : Frans Kellendonk and the Gothic / Agnes Andeweg -- Gothic Engineerings in Childrearing Manuals and Feminist Novels : Benjamin Spock Meets Renate Dorrestein / Rosemarie Buikema and Elisabeth Wesseling -- Horace Walpole, Matthew "Monk" Lewis and William Beckford and the Caribbean Creole Origins of Gothic Horror / Anita Raghunath -- Signifying Gothic Sexuality in Gayl Jones' Corregidora / Andrene Taylor -- I had it all wrong : New Vampires, Grrrl Heroes and the Third Wave Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Renee T. Coulombe -- Purgatorial Narratives of the Haunted Land : Ireland as a Grotesque Body in Melmoth the Wanderer / Gulden Hatipoglu -- Perversity as One of the Fine Arts : Creative Acts of Destruction in Art and Literature / Maria Antonia Lima.
Language Note:
English.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Gothic fiction (Literary genre) > History and criticism > Congresses.
Horror tales > History and criticism > Congresses.
Horror films > History and criticism > Congresses.
Gothic revival (Literature) > Congresses.
Goth culture (Subculture) > Congresses.
Alternative lifestyles.
Cultural studies.
Literature & literary studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Goth culture (Subculture)
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror films.
Horror tales.
Gothic Revival (letterkunde)
Genre: Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.


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