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Victorian Gothic

Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century

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  1. Ruth Robbins

    1. Department of English, University College, Northampton, UK

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  2. Julian Wolfreys

    1. University of Florida, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. ‘Designing Gourmet Children or, KIDS FOR DINNER!’

    • James R. Kincaid
    Pages 1-11

  3. Resurrecting the Regency: Horror and Eighteenth-Century Comedy in Le Fanu’s Fiction

    • Victor Sage
    Pages 12-30

  4. ‘I wants to make your flesh creep’: Notes toward a Reading of the Comic-Gothic in Dickens

    • Julian Wolfreys
    Pages 31-59

  5. Hopkins and the Gothic Body

    • R. J. C. Watt
    Pages 60-89

  6. From King Arthur to Sidonia the Sorceress: the Dual Nature of Pre-Raphaelite Mediaevalism

    • J.-A. George
    Pages 90-108

  7. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Literary Influence and Technologies of the Uncanny

    • Alison Chapman
    Pages 109-128

  8. The ‘Anxious Dream’: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Gothic Perspective

    • Marion Wynne-Davies
    Pages 129-147

  9. Trance-Gothic, 1882–97

    • Roger Luckhurst
    Pages 148-167

  10. ‘Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage’: Reading the Ethics of the Soul and the Late-Victorian Gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 168-181

  11. Apparitions Can Be Deceptive: Vernon Lee’s Androgynous Spectres

    • Ruth Robbins
    Pages 182-200

  12. Gothic and Supernatural: Allegories at Work and Play in Kipling’s Indian Fiction

    • Peter Morey
    Pages 201-217

  13. Archaeology and Gothic Desire: Vitality Beyond the Grave in H. Rider Haggard’s Ancient Egypt

    • Richard Pearson
    Pages 218-244

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 245-260
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About this book

To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations. The Gothic is found to haunt all aspects of Victorian literature and culture. Moreover, Victorian Gothic connects its disparate areas of research in returning repeatedly to the question of the constitution of the subject, in a study of the Victorians from the 1830s to the 1890s.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University College, Northampton, UK

    Ruth Robbins

  • University of Florida, USA

    Julian Wolfreys

About the authors

ALISON CHAPMAN Lecturer in Literature, University of Dundee J.-A. GEORGE Teacher of English and Drama, University of Dundee JAMES R. KINKAID Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California ROGER LUCKHURST Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London PETER MOREY Lecturer, Department of Cultural Studies, University of East London RICHARD PEARSON Lecturer in English, University College Worcester VICTOR SAGE Reader in Literature, University of East Anglia R.J.C. WATT Senior Lecturer in English, University of Dundee KENNETH WOMACK Assistant Professor, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona MARION WYNNE-DAVIES Lecturer in English, University of Dundee

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Victorian Gothic

  • Book Subtitle: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century

  • Authors: Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598737

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23169-9Published: 04 January 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41172-6Published: 04 January 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59873-7Published: 24 September 2000

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 260

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature

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