Perils of the Night : A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic - Eugenia C. DeLamotte

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Perils of the Night

A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic

By: Eugenia C. DeLamotte

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Hardcover | 1 February 1990

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This book argues that the source of Gothic terror is anxiety about the boundaries of the self: a double fear of separateness and unity that has had a special significance for women writers and readers. Exploring the psychological, religious, and epistemological context of this anxiety, DeLamotte argues that the Gothic vision focuses simultaneously on the private demons of the psyche and the social realities that helped to shape them. Her analysis includes works of English and American authors, among them Henry James, Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, and a number of often neglected popular women Gothicists.

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"DeLamotte has some well-informed, provocative things to say about Gothic fiction's enduring power....The valuable, uncomfortable ideas in Perils of the Night make it worth your attention....Perils is a demanding book. Still, the subject is so fascinating and DeLamotte's perception so ferocious that readers are truly compelled to meet the book's demands."--Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual "DeLamotte has some well-informed, provocative things to say about Gothic fiction's enduring power....The valuable, uncomfortable ideas in Perils of the Night make it worth your attention....Perils is a demanding book. Still, the subject is so fascinating and DeLamotte's perception so ferocious that readers are truly compelled to meet the book's demands."--Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual

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Boundaries of the Self as a Gothic Theme
Introduction: The Genre, the Canon, and the Myth	p. 3
Self-Defense in the Gothic Tradition: Radcliffe, Brockden Brown, Henry James	p. 29
The Mystery of Knowledge: Frankenstein, Melmoth, Pierre	p. 43
"Deadly Iteration": Hawthorne's Gothic Vision	p. 93
Boundaries of the Self as Romantic Theme: Emily Bronte	p. 118
Epilogue	p. 144
Boundaries of the Self in Women's Gothic
Speaking "I" and the Gothic Nightmare: Boundaries of the Self as a Woman's Theme	p. 149
Gothic Romance and Women's Reality in Jane Eyre	p. 193
Villette: Demystifying Women's Gothic	p. 229
Epilogue	p. 290
Notes	p. 293
Bibliography	p. 323
Index	p. 341
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A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic

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