Gothic Kinship

Herausgeber: Andeweg, Agnes; Zlosnik, Sue

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Produktbeschreibung

Gothic kinship is the first collection that investigates the nexus between Gothic and kinship figurations in a wide range of texts from different periods and different countries. What is it that makes certain forms of relatedness Gothic? In what sense may kinship be regarded as monstrous, or evil, or haunting? Although the preoccupation of Gothic fiction with the family has often been observed, these essays break new ground by bringing together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offering a synthesis and theorisation of the different appearances of the Gothic family. Writers discussed include early British Gothic writers such as Eleanor Sleath and Louisa Sidney Stanhope as well as a range of later authors writing in English, including Elizabeth Gaskell, William March, Stephen King, Poppy Z. Brite, Patricia Duncker, J.K. Rowling and Audrey Niffenegger. There are also essays on Dutch authors (Louis Couperus and Renate Dorrestein) and on the film directors Wes Craven and Steven Sheil. Arranged chronologically, the various contributions show that both early and contemporary Gothic display very diverse kinship ties, ranging from metaphorical to triangular, from queer to nuclear-patriarchal. Gothic proves to be a rich source of expressing both subversive and conservative notions of the family. Gothic kinship will be of interest to academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduates working on the Gothic, English, American and Dutch studies in literature and film, gender studies and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780719088605
• ISBN-10: 0719088607
• Artikelnr.: 39355229

Autorenporträt

Agnes Andeweg is a lecturer and tutor at University College Utrecht Sue Zlosnik is Emeritus Professor of Gothic Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Agnes Andeweg and Sue Zlosnik 2. Matriarchal picture
identification in first-wave British Gothic fiction - Kamilla Elliott 3.
'Those most intimately concerned': the strength of chosen family in
Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic short fiction - Ardel Haefele-Thomas 4. The mad
woman in the attic of Labuwangi: Couperus and colonial Gothic -Rosemarie
Buikema 5. Seed from the east, seed from the west, which one will turn out
best? The demonic adoptee in The Bad Seed (1954) -Elisabeth Wesseling 6.
'Children misbehaving in the walls!' or, Wes Craven's suburban family
values - Bernice M. Murphy 7. Fathers, friends, and families: Gothic
kinship in Stephen King's Pet Sematary - John Sears 8. Sisterhood is
monstrous: Gothic imagery in Dutch feminist fiction - Agnes Andeweg 9. The
political uncanny of the family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space
Between and The Civil Partnership Act - Anne Quéma 10. Violent households:
the family destabilised in The Monk (1796), Zofloya, or the Moor (1818),
and Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) - Joanne Watkiss 11. 'As much a family as
anyone could be, anywhere ever': revisioning the family in Poppy Z. Brite's
Lost Souls - William Hughes 12. Gothic half bloods: maternal kinship in
Rowling's Harry Potter series - Ranita Chatterjee 13. 'They fuck you up' -
revaluations of the family in contemporary British horror film: Steven
Sheil's Mum & Dad - Johannes Schlegel Index