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02789aam a2200361 i 4500 001 0658B5F86B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150910t20162016ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015035357 020 $a 0786498501 020 $a 9780786498505 035 $a (OCoLC)936527575 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d YDXCP $d PUL $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR868 T3 A56 2016 100 1 $a Anolik, Ruth Bienstock, $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Property and power in English Gothic literature / $c Ruth Bienstock Anolik. 264 1 $a Jefferson, North Carolina : $b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, $c [2016] 300 $a viii, 233 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction. Possessions: property and propriety in the English Gothic mode -- Part I. Castle and moat: property possession in the English Gothic. Slippery properties: The castle of Otranto and The old English baron -- A century of loss: historical contexts for property anxieties -- Fantasies of return: property restoration imagined -- Nineteenth-century expansions -- Part II. Ghosts: possession of person in the English Gothic. Self-(dis)possession in The woman in white -- Dispossessions of the mind and the body: a Gothic tropology -- The double and the ghost: refusals of self-(dis)possession -- Resurrection fantasies: defying death's dispossessions -- Slavery and marriage: Gothic reflections of political rhetoric -- Missing mothers and suppressed sisters: the dangers of primogeniture -- Part III. Fragmented stories: appropriated voices: possession of the narrative in the English Gothic -- Gothic conventions: narrative dispossessions -- Contexts of contested narratives: can the text be possessed? -- The theology of narrative dispossession in Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer -- Dispossessed and dispossessing: the wandering Jew's possession of voice and narrative -- Part IV. Beyond the end: dispossessing closure. "It is only the theory I want": repossessing fiction in Sarah Waters's Affinity -- The political fantastic -- Conclusion. Toward a transatlantic investigation: possession and dispossession in American Gothic literature. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Horror tales, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Gothic revival (Literature) $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) in literature. 650 0 $a Property in literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171223030356.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826044303.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0658B5F86B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search