Ruth Bienstock Anolik

Property and Power in English Gothic Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Eighteenth-century England witnessed major social and economic changes, including the commodification of property, person and text through legal containments--enclosure, coverture, primogeniture, copyright. English Gothic authors responded with tropes that worked to dispel the assurances of possession--the contested castle, the beleaguered yet enduring woman, the haunting ghost, the disjointed narrative--warning that seemingly mundane codes of ownership have menacing implications, such as the civil death of women through marriage. This book explores the masterplot of the English Gothic text as a response to the Enlightenment's rational certainty regarding possession of self, property and narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780786498505
• ISBN-10: 0786498501
• Artikelnr.: 43409068

Autorenporträt

Ruth Bienstock Anolik teaches at Villanova University and writes extensively on the Gothic mode. Her articles have been published in Modern Language Studies, Studies in Jewish Literature, and other journals and collections.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Possessions: Property and Propriety in the English Gothic
Mode
Part I.¿Castle and Moat: Property Possession in the English Gothic
1. Slippery Properties: The Castle of Otranto and The Old English Baron
2. A Century of Loss: Historical Contexts for Property Anxieties
3. Fantasies of Return: Property Restoration Imagined
4. Nineteenth-Century Expansions
Part II. Ghosts: Possession of Person in the English Gothic
5. Self-(Dis)Possession in The Woman in White
6. Dispossessions of the Mind and the Body: A Gothic Tropology
7. The Double and the Ghost: Refusals of Self-(Dis)Possession
8. Resurrection Fantasies: Defying Death's Dispossessions
9. Slavery and Marriage: Gothic Reflections of Political Rhetoric
10. Missing Mothers and Suppressed Sisters: The Dangers of Primogeniture
Part III. Fragmented Stories; Appropriated Voices: Possession of the
Narrative in the English Gothic
11. Gothic Conventions; Narrative Dispossessions
12. Contexts of Contested Narratives: Can the Text Be Possessed?
13. The Theology of Narrative Dispossession in Maturin's Melmoth the
Wanderer
14. Dispossessed and Dispossessing: The Wandering Jew's Possession of Voice
and Narrative
Part IV. Beyond the End: Dispossessing Closure
15. "It is only the theory I want": Repossessing Fiction in Sarah Waters's
Affinity
16. The Political Fantastic
Conclusion. Toward a Transatlantic Investigation: Possession and
Dispossession in American Gothic Literature
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index