Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock

by E. Salotto

Overview

Looking at the gothic in Victorian fiction, the development of cinema and Hitchcock's Vertigo , this book explores the contained or repressed desires of both characters and plots which defy direct representation, resulting in obsession, fetishism and displacement engendering a novel account of the way in which the gothic becomes internalized.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349736539
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/24/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2006
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ELEANOR SALOTTO is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Film Studies at Sweet Briar College, USA, where she teaches courses in Nineteenth-century British and continental literature and film studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Haunted Hotel and the Ghostly Feminine Gothic Fragments: Wordless Narration in The Woman in White Phantasmagorical Narration in Bleak House Shadowing the Dead: First Person Narration in Our Mutual Friend Shopping for an 'I': The Ladies' Paradise and the Spectacle of Identity She's Not There: Vertigo and the Ghostly Feminine Grave Narrations: Dickens and the Novel Conclusion