Description |
xi, 237 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Contents note continued: 9.Violent households: the family destabilized in The Monk (1796), Zofloya, or the Moor (1818), and Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) Joanne Watkiss -- 10.̀As much a family as anyone could be, anywhere ever': revisioning the family in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls William Hughes -- 11.Gothic half-bloods: maternal kinship in Rowling's Harry Potter series Ranita Chatterjee -- 12.̀They fuck you up' --- revaluations of the family in contemporary British horror film: Steven Sheil's Mum & Dad Johannes Schlegel |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Matriarchal picture identification in first-wave British Gothic fiction Kamilla Elliott -- 2.̀Those most intimately concerned': the strength of chosen family in Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic short fiction Ardel Haefele-Thomas -- 3.The madwoman in the attic of Labuwangi: Couperus and colonial Gothic Rosemarie Buikema -- 4.Seed from the east, seed from the west, which one will turn out best? The demonic adoptee in The Bad Seed (1954) Elisabeth Wesseling -- 5.̀Children misbehaving in the walls!' or, Wes Craven's suburban family values Bernice M. Murphy -- 6.Fathers, friends, and families: Gothic kinship in Stephen King's Pet Sematary John Sears -- 7.Sisterhood is monstrous: Gothic imagery in Dutch feminist fiction Agnes Andeweg -- 8.The political uncanny of the family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between and The Civil Partnership Act Anne Quema -- |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Families in motion pictures.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism.
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Horror films -- History and criticism.
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Kinship in literature.
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Kinship in motion pictures
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Author |
Andeweg, Agnes, editor of compilation
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Zlosnik, Sue, 1949- editor of compilation
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ISBN |
9780719088605 (hbk.) |
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