Synopses & Reviews
Taking a fresh approach to the study of the gothic in Victorian fiction, the development of the cinema, and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Gothic Returns explores the contained or repressed desires of both characters and plots that defy direct representation, resulting in obsession, fetishism, and displacement engendering a novel account of the way in which the gothic becomes internalized.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Eleanor Salotto is Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Film Studies at Sweet Briar College.
Table of Contents
Introduction *
The Haunted Hotel and the Ghostly Feminine * Gothic Fragments: Wordless Narration in
The Woman in White * Phantasmagorical Narration in
Bleak House * Shadowing the Dead: First Person Narration in
Our Mutual Friend * Shopping for an "I":
The Ladies' Paradise and the Spectacle of Identity * She's Not There:
Vertigo and the Ghostly Feminine * Grave Narrations: Dickens and the Novel * Conclusion