Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Eleanor Salotto

   Pages 1-11

3. Survival of the Unfittest: Collins’s The Haunted Hotel and The Woman in White

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   Pages 13-41

4. Phantasmagorical Narration in Bleak House

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   Pages 43-60

5. Shadowing the Dead: First Person Narration in Our Mutual Friend

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   Pages 61-79

6. Shopping for an “I”: Zola’s The Ladies’ Paradiseand the Spectacle of Identity

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   Pages 81-100

7. She’s Not There: Vertigo and the Ghostly Feminine

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   Pages 101-117

8. Grave Narrations: Dickens’s Later Writings

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   Pages 119-158

9. Conclusion

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   Pages 159-161

10. Back Matter

    Pages 163-198

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Looking at the gothic in Victorian fiction, the development of cinema and Hitchcock's Vertigo , this book explores the contained or repressed desires of both characters and plots which defy direct representation, resulting in obsession, fetishism and displacement engendering a novel account of the way in which the gothic becomes internalized.

• Charles Dickens
• fiction
• identity
• novel
• Victorian era

ELEANOR SALOTTO is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Film Studies at Sweet Briar College, USA, where she teaches courses in Nineteenth-century British and continental literature and film studies.

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