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