Property and power in English Gothic literature /
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.