Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic

ISBN-13: 9780195056938 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 368 str.

Eugenia C. DeLamotte;Eugenia C DeLamotte;Eugenia C. DeLamotte

Opis

This book argues that the source of Gothic terror is anxiety about the boundaries of the self: a double fear of separateness and unity that has had a special significance for women writers and readers. Exploring the psychological, religious, and epistemological context of this anxiety, DeLamotte argues that the Gothic vision focuses simultaneously on the private demons of the psyche and the social realities that helped to shape them. Her analysis includes works of English and American authors, among them Henry James, Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, and a number of often neglected popular women Gothicists.

Recenzje

DeLamotte has some well-informed, provocative things to say about Gothic fiction's enduring power....The valuable, uncomfortable ideas in Perils of the Night make it worth your attention....Perils is a demanding book. Still, the subject is so fascinating and DeLamotte's perception so ferocious that readers are truly compelled to meet the book's demands.