Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Anolik, Ruth Bienstock (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Property and power in English gothic literature [Texte imprimé] / Ruth Bienstock Anolik
Publication : Jefferson (N.C.) : McFarland & Company, copyright 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii, 233 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index
Sujet(s) : Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Roman gothique anglais -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature d'épouvante anglaise -- 18e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Pouvoir (sciences sociales) -- Dans la littérature
Propriété -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780786498505. - ISBN 0786498501 (br.). - ISBN 9781476622644 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457412271
Notice n° :
FRBNF45741227
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction. Possessions: property and propriety in the English Gothic mode ; Castle
and moat: property possession in the English Gothic. Slippery properties: The castle
of Otranto and The old English baron ; A century of loss: historical contexts for
property anxieties ; Fantasies of return: property restoration imagined ; Nineteenth-century
expansions ; Ghosts: possession of person in the English Gothic. Self-(dis)possession
in The woman in white ; Dispossessions of the mind and the body: a Gothic tropology
; The double and the ghost: refusals of self-(dis)possession ; Resurrection fantasies:
defying death's dispossessions ; Slavery and marriage: Gothic reflections of political
rhetoric ; Missing mothers and suppressed sisters: the dangers of primogeniture
; Fragmented stories: appropriated voices: possession of the narrative in the English
Gothic ; Gothic conventions: narrative dispossessions ; Contexts of contested narratives:
can the text be possessed? ; The theology of narrative dispossession in Maturin's
Melmoth the wanderer ; Dispossessed and dispossessing: the wandering Jew's possession
of voice and narrative ; Beyond the end: dispossessing closure. "'It is only the
theory I want': repossessing fiction in Sarah Waters's Affinity ; The political fantastic
; Conclusion. Toward a transatlantic investigation: possession and dispossession in
American Gothic literature.
