Gothic kinship.
Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family.
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England)
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Gothic kinship; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Notes on contributors ; Introduction: Agnes Andeweg and Sue Zlosnik; 1 Matriarchal picture identification in first-wave British Gothic fiction: Kamilla Elliott; 2 'Those most intimately concerned': the strength of chosen family in Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic short fiction: Ardel Haefele-Thomas; 3 The madwoman in the attic of Labuwangi: Couperus and colonial Gothic: Rosemarie Buikema; 4 Seed from the east, seed from the west, which one will turn out best? The demonic adoptee in The Bad Seed (1954): Elisabeth Wesseling.
- 5 'Children misbehaving in the walls!' or, Wes Craven's suburban family values: Bernice M. Murphy6 Fathers, friends, and families: Gothic kinship in Stephen King's Pet Sematary: John Sears; 7 Sisterhood is monstrous: Gothic imagery in Dutch feminist fiction: Agnes Andeweg; 8 The political uncanny of the family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between and The Civil Partnership Act: Anne Quéma; 9 Violent households: the family destabilized in The Monk (1796), Zofloya, or the Moor (1818), and Her Fearful Symmetry (2009): Joanne Watkiss.
- 10 'As much a family as anyone could be, anywhere ever': revisioning the family in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls: William Hughes11 Gothic half-bloods: maternal kinship in Rowling's Harry Potter series: Ranita Chatterjee; 12 'They fuck you up'
- revaluations of the family in contemporary British horror film: Steven Sheil's Mum & Dad: Johannes Schlegel; Index.