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Nostalgia or perversion? : Gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day / edited by Isabella van Elferen.

Title
Nostalgia or perversion? : Gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day / edited by Isabella van Elferen.
Publication
Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

Details

Additional Authors
Elferen, Isabella van
Description
vii, 266 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • " ... the conference 'Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Victorian Age until the Present Day' ... Ravenstein ... 2005."--P. 9.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-260).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Gothic's double gesture : Nostalgia, Perversion, and Repetition in Gothic Rewritings / Jennifer E. Dunn -- "There's No Place Like Home?" : Nostalgia, Perversion, and Trauma in theFemale Gothic / Carol Margaret Davison -- A Postscript to Transgression : The Gothic in Georges Bataille's Dissident Avant-Gardism / Joost de Bloois -- "Evil is a Point of View" : Anne Rice's (Post- ) Modern Vampire / Sandra Hessels -- Gothic Transformations : Revisiting The House on the Borderland / Zuleyha Cetiner-Oktem -- Literature from a Cultural Ecological Perspective : Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers / Funda Civelekoglu -- Celts, Crusaders, and Clerics : The "Medieval" in Gothic Music / Rebekah Ahrendt -- Rewriting the Dead : The Tension between Nostalgia and Perversion in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) / Harun Maye -- Hollow Spaces of Psyche : Gothic Trance-Formation from Joy Division to Diary of Dreams / Atte Oksanen -- The Ghost in the Closet : Frans Kellendonk and the Gothic / Agnes Andeweg -- Gothic Engineerings in Childrearing Manuals and Feminist Novels : Benjamin Spock Meets Renate Dorrestein / Rosemarie Buikema and Elisabeth Wesseling -- Horace Walpole, Matthew "Monk" Lewis and William Beckford and the Caribbean Creole Origins of Gothic Horror / Anita Raghunath -- Signifying Gothic Sexuality in Gayl Jones' Corregidora / Andrene Taylor -- I had it all wrong : New Vampires, Grrrl Heroes and the Third Wave Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Renee T. Coulombe -- Purgatorial Narratives of the Haunted Land : Ireland as a Grotesque Body in Melmoth the Wanderer / Gulden Hatipoglu -- Perversity as One of the Fine Arts : Creative Acts of Destruction in Art and Literature / Maria Antonia Lima.
ISBN
  • 184718247X
  • 9781847182470