The Female Gothic: New Directions

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic....Pages 1-12
Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies....Pages 13-25
‘The Haunting Idea’: Female Gothic Metaphors and Feminist Theory....Pages 26-41
‘Mother Radcliff’: Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic....Pages 42-59
Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels....Pages 60-75
Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Gothic Grotesque....Pages 76-97
From Bluebeard’s Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic....Pages 98-114
Keeping It in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch....Pages 115-132
‘I Don’t Want to be a [White] Girl’: Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic....Pages 133-151
Children of the Night: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Female Gothic....Pages 152-165
Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Love....Pages 166-179
‘Unhomely Moments’: Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic....Pages 180-195
Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction....Pages 196-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-219