From Wollstonecraft to Stoker : essays on Gothic and Victorian sensation fiction /

"This collection of essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Brontë. Each essay explores thei...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brock, Marilyn, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2009]
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism. Horror tales, English > History and criticism. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.

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Summary:	"This collection of essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Brontë. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:	viii, 212 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780786440214 (softcover : alk. paper) 078644021X (softcover : alk. paper)