George Eliot and the gothic novel : genres, gender, feeling / Royce Mahawatte.

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Mahawatte, Royce

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TextSeries: Gothic literary studiesPublication details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780708325773
0708325777
1306495113
9781306495110
9781783160334
1783160330

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: George Eliot and the Gothic Novel : Genres, Gender, Feeling.DDC classification:

823.8 23

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PR4692.S47 M34 2013eb

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Contents:

Acknowledgements; Note on Names; List of abbreviations; Prologue; Introduction: 'half-womanish, half-ghostly': George Eliot and the Inheritance of the Gothic; Reimagining the Genres of Feeling; 'as if there was a demon in me': 'Janet's Repentence'and the Evangelical Gothic; 'with two names written on it': Sensation Narratives in Adam Bede; 'of one texture with the rest of my existence':'The Lifted Veil' and the Tale of the Supernatural; Uncanny Women, Fearing Men; Counterfeit Gothic Heroines in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.

Romola and Felix Holt, The Radical: The Pursuits of Paranoid MenFinale: Daniel Deronda: Sensationalized Society, Gothicized Self; Epilogue; Notes; List of Works Cited and Consulted; Index.

Summary: Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian novel.

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Romola and Felix Holt, The Radical: The Pursuits of Paranoid MenFinale: Daniel Deronda: Sensationalized Society, Gothicized Self; Epilogue; Notes; List of Works Cited and Consulted; Index.

Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian novel.