The murder house, or the archaic mother in 'American Horror Story.'

Cover
Contents
Editors’ Preface
CHAPTER ONE The Gothic Canon: Contexts, Features, Relationships, Perspectives
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CHAPTER TWO Gothic Castaways: Dreams, Demons and Monsters in Early Modern Desert Island Narratives
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CHAPTER THREE Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
	Enter the (anti)heroine
	Bibliomania
	The equivocal suitor
	The (mock) villain
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CHAPTER FOUR A Christmas Carol—Charles Dickens’s Ghostly Academy
	The Ghost of Hamlet’s Father
	The Ghost of Jacob Marley
	The Ghost of Illumination
	The Ghost of Christmas Present: “A jolly Giant, glorious to see”
	The Final Countdown: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
	Conclusion
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CHAPTER FIVE The Undead Queen: Queen Victoria’s Afterlife in Gothic Fiction
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CHAPTER SIX First-Person Noir: Murderousness and (Ir)rationality in Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
	“A normality-challenged teenage eccentric”
	Murderers’ novels
	The gory art of murder
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CHAPTER SEVEN Faculty Gothic in the American College Novel of the 1990s
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CHAPTER EIGHT Competing Genres in the English Country House: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
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CHAPTER NINE Ghosts and Their Stories in Children’s Fiction
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CHAPTER TEN In the Bowels of a Gothic Microverse: Delicatessen as a Semiotic Palimpsest
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CHAPTER ELEVEN Gothic Automata and the Kunstkammer Island: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by Quay Brothers
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CHAPTER TWELVE The Murder House, or the Archaic Mother in American Horror Story
	Approaching the Bad Place
	Inside the Mother House
	The female abject, or monstrous her-stories
	Still life, or taming the monstrous feminine
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Gothic Videogames
	Gothic and Videogames
	Gothic in Videogames
	Gothic as Videogames
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	Video Games
Index of Names and Titles
Contributors