Gothic Landscapes : Changing Eras, Changing Cultures, Changing Anxieties /: Changing Eras, Changing Cultures, Changing Anxieties. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sharon Rose Yang, Kathleen Healey.
• Editors: Yang, Sharon Rose; Healey, Kathleen
• Other Names: Yang, Sharon Rose; École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
• Contents: Introduction. Haunted Landscapes and Fearful Spaces: Expanding Views on the Geography of the Gothic; Sharon Rose Yang and Kathleen Healey -- PART I: CROSS-GENRE: HIDEOUS HYBRIDS/HYBRIDS OF HORROR -- 1. Dark Shadows in the Promised Land: Landscapes of Terror and the Visual Arts in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly; Kathleen Healey -- 2. Haunting Landscapes in "Female Gothic" Thriller Films: From Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles; Sheri Chinen Biesen -- 3. "Beauty Sleeping in the Lap of Horror": Landscape Aesthetics and Gothic Pleasures, from The Castle of Otranto to Video Games; Alice Davenport -- PART II: DARKNESS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES: NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S HAUNTED CASTLE -- 4. What the Green Grass Hides: Denial and Deception in Suburban Detroit; Amber Vayo -- 5. "Go steady, Undine!": The Horror of Ambition in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country; Myrto Drizou -- 6. The Convent as Coven: Gothic Implications of Women-Centered Illness and Healing Narratives in Toni Morrison's Paradise; Belinda M. Waller-Peterson -- 7. Haunting Memories: Gothic and Memoir; Erica Moore -- PART III: GOTHIC SOCIAL LANDSCAPES -- 8. The Indian Gothic; Nalini Pai -- 9. St. Bernard's: Terrors of the Light in the Gothic Hospital; Christy Rieger -- 10. Nature Selects the Horla: How the Concept of Natural Selection Influences Guy de Maupassant's Horror Tale; Sharon Rose Yang -- 11. Ruins of Empire: Refashioning the Gothic in J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun (1984); Alex Watson -- 12. Gothic Landscapes in Mary Butts's Ashe of Rings; Roslyn Reso Foy -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.034; Literature, Modern -- 18th century; Literature, Modern -- 19th century; Literature, Modern -- 20th century; Literature; Gothic literature -- History and criticism; Gothic literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319331655; 9783319331652
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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