Maternal Gaze in the Gothic

AvSara Williams

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Palgrave Gothic

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Beskrivning

This monograph is an original project which plots the trajectory of the maternal gaze as a convention in the Gothic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:536 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Gothic
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031706653

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Sara Williams is an independent scholar in the field of English Literature with an emphasis on Gothic literature and film. Her research focuses on relationships between trauma, voyeurism and consumption in the maternal Gothic and she has published a variety of reviews, articles, chapters; a critical edition. She is currently co-editing a collection The Crazy Cat Lady and the Gothic.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction - The Maternal Gaze in the Gothic.- Part 1: The Gothic Heritage.- Chapter 2. The Gothic and Maternal Symbolism in the works of J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker.- Chapter 3. “The more I saw the less they would”: Subverting Hysteria and Surveillance in The Turn of the Screw, The Others and The Orphanage.- Part 2: Gothic Practices.- Chapter 4. Seeing is Believing: Spiritualism, Psychic Photography and the Maternal Gaze.- Chapter 5. “Taken From Life”: Memorial Portraiture, Divine Death and the Virgin Mary in the Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron.- Part 3: The Gothic Domestic.- Chapter 6. Guilty Pleasures: Incest and the Pre-Oedipal Maternal Tangle in Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Virginia Andrews' Dollanganger Saga and Misery Literature.- Chapter 7. The Maternal Gaze and the Gothic Abyss of the Internet.