Women's Gothic

preview-18
  • Women's Gothic Book Detail

  • Author : E. J. Clery
  • Release Date : 2004
  • Publisher :
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 177
  • ISBN 13 : 0746311443
  • File Size : 2,2 MB

Women's Gothic by E. J. Clery PDF Summary

Book Description: Female writers of the Gothic were hell-raisers in more than one sense: not only did they specialize in evoking scenes of horror, cruelty, and supernaturalism, but in doing so they exploded the literary conventions of the day, and laid claim to realms of the imagination hitherto reserved for men. They were rewarded with popular success, large profits, and even critical adulation. E.J. Clery's acclaimed study tells the strange but true story of women's gothic. She identifies contemporary fascination with the operation of the passions and the example of the great tragic actress Sarah Siddons as enabling factors, and then examines in depth the careers of two pioneers of the genre, Clara Reeve and Sophie Lee, its reigning queen, Ann Radcliffe, and the daring experimentalists Joanna Baillie and Charlotte Dacre. The account culminates with Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein (1818) has attained mythical status. Students and scholars as well as general readers will find Women's Gothic a stimulating introductio

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Women's Gothic books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Women's Gothic

Women's Gothic

File Size : 97,97 MB
Total View : 8614 Views
DOWNLOAD

Female writers of the Gothic were hell-raisers in more than one sense: not only did they specialize in evoking scenes of horror, cruelty, and supernaturalism, b

Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction

Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction

File Size : 38,38 MB
Total View : 4463 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Goth

Women and the Gothic

Women and the Gothic

File Size : 67,67 MB
Total View : 7286 Views
DOWNLOAD

A re-assessment of the Gothic in relation to the female, the 'feminine', feminism and post-feminismThis collection of newly commissioned essays brings together

Gothic (Re)Visions

Gothic (Re)Visions

File Size : 62,62 MB
Total View : 974 Views
DOWNLOAD

Gothic fiction usually has been perceived as the special province of women, an attraction often attributed to a thematics of woman-identified issues such as fem