Property and power in English Gothic literature Anolik, Ruth Bienstock 1952- creator author. EBSCOhost text bibliography Electronic books. ncu 2016 monographic eng remote 1 online resource ( viii, 233 pages .) : Introduction. Possessions: property and propriety in the English Gothic mode -- Castle and moat: property possession in the English Gothic. Slippery properties: The castle of Otranto and The old English baron -- A century of loss: historical contexts for property anxieties -- Fantasies of return: property restoration imagined -- Nineteenth-century expansions -- Ghosts: possession of person in the English Gothic. Self-(dis)possession in The woman in white -- Dispossessions of the mind and the body: a Gothic tropology -- The double and the ghost: refusals of self-(dis)possession -- Resurrection fantasies: defying death's dispossessions -- Slavery and marriage: Gothic reflections of political rhetoric -- Missing mothers and suppressed sisters: the dangers of primogeniture -- Fragmented stories: appropriated voices: possession of the narrative in the English Gothic -- Gothic conventions: narrative dispossessions -- Contexts of contested narratives: can the text be possessed? -- The theology of narrative dispossession in Maturin's Melmoth the wanderer -- Dispossessed and dispossessing: the wandering Jew's possession of voice and narrative -- Beyond the end: dispossessing closure. "'It is only the theory I want': repossessing fiction in Sarah Waters's Affinity -- The political fantastic -- Conclusion. Toward a transatlantic investigation: possession and dispossession in American Gothic literature. Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index. e-uk--- English fiction 18th century History and criticism Horror tales, English History and criticism Gothic revival (Literature) Great Britain History 18th century Power (Social sciences) in literature Property in literature English fiction Gothic revival (Literature) Horror tales, English Power (Social sciences) in literature Property in literature Great Britain Literary studies: general English Literature 1700-1799 fast PR868.T3 A56 2016 823/.0872909 (DLC) 2015035357 (OCoLC)936527575 9781476622644 1476622647 9780786498505 0786498501 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1132711 YDXCP 160712 20200908142031.1 in00004606901 eng