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Author:
Watkiss, Joanne.
Title:
Gothic contemporaries : the haunted text / Joanne Watkiss.
Publisher:
University of Wales Press,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
viii, 146 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--Themes, motives.
English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-142) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the horror of failed exchanges: signification, communication, ethics, death, inheritance and currency -- 1. H(a)unting the house: consuming Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves -- 2. The horror of miscommunication: The story of Lucy Gault -- 3. The Gothic double revised: memory, mourning and illegal twins in The sea -- 4. Conjuration, digestion, expulsion: the law of mourning in The gathering -- 5. An inherited poison: Hamlet, the castle of Otranto and Lunar Park -- 6. Gothic currency: mortgage, debt and exchange in Beyond black.
Series:
Gothic literary studies
ISBN:
0708324568
9780708324561 (pbk.)
070832455X (hbk.)
9780708324554 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)760973425
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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