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The uses of phobia : essays on literature and film /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trotter, David, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Series:Critical quarterly (Book series)
Subjects:
English fiction > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > History.
Phobias in literature.
Phobias in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Household clearances in Victorian fiction
  • The invention of agoraphobia
  • Naturalism's phobic picturesque
  • Feminist phobia
  • Modernist toilette: Degas, Woolf, Lawrence
  • British First World War combat fiction
  • Ford against Joyce and Lewis
  • Hitchcock's modernism
  • Phoning it in
  • Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher.