Based on a subsection of a 2010 conference entitled 'Women and Gothic' which was part of a one-day conference entitled 'Women and words' hosted by the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A Brief Introduction / Maria Purves -- "Still to be Seen": Relocating the Gothic in the Fiction of Ann Radcliffe and the Travel Writing of Hester Piozzi / Mark Bennett -- "Junketacious Gothick": Elizabeth Percy's Patronage of Alnwick Castle, Northumberland / Laura Mayer -- Imaginary Dimensions: Women, Surrealism and the Gothic / Kimberley Marwood -- On Narrative Curiosity / Victor Sage -- The After-Lives of the Bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson / Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- "Better Known as Rosa Matilda": Charlotte Dacre's Authorial Doppelganger / Andrew McInnes -- "Be wary then: best SAFETY lies in FEAR": Chastity Versus Desire in Mary Robinson's Gothic / Chrisy Dennis -- A Castle, a Commissary and a Corpse: Overcoming the Gothic Threat in the Novels of Frances Burney / Eleanor Crouch -- The Gothic Genius of Mary Webb / Maria Purves -- Incarcerating the Sane: The Asylum and Female Powerlessness in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fiction / Clare Broome Saunders -- "The Wordless Secrets of Death's Deep": Christina Rossetti's Gothic / Serena Trowbridge -- The Female Musical Uncanny in the Fiction of E.T.A. Hoffmann / Marion Treby.
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