Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris, Leroux’s Le Fantôme de l’Opéra and the Changing Functions of the Gothic....Pages 15-37
Edgar Allan Poe in Paris: The Flâneur, the Détournement and the Gothic Spaces of the Nineteenth-Century City....Pages 38-49
Blood in Paris: Transformations of Revolutionary Gothic in Henry James and Elizabeth Bowen....Pages 50-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
‘How do we ape thee, France!’ The Cult of Rousseau in Women’s Gothic Writing in the 1790s....Pages 67-82
Huysmans, Machen and the Gothic Grotesque, Or: The Way Up is the Way Down....Pages 83-99
Gothic Permutations from the 1790s to the 1970s: Rethinking the Marquis de Sade’s Legacy....Pages 100-115
Dracula’s Daughters: Angela Carter and Pierrette Fleutiaux’s Vampiric Exchanges....Pages 116-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Beast’s Triumph over Beauty in Gothic Film....Pages 137-150
‘Who is the third who walks always beside you?’ Eliot, Stoker and Stetson in The Waste Land....Pages 151-165
Calvinist Gothic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, or the Transformation and James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner....Pages 166-184
Colonial Ghosts: Mimicking Dickens in America....Pages 185-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Translating Technologies: Dickens, Kafka and the Gothic....Pages 201-218
A Voyage through the Phantom Museum....Pages 219-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-248