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Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic

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Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic - DeLamotte, Eugenia C
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This book argues that the source of Gothic terror is anxiety about the boundaries of the self: a double fear of separateness and unity that has had a special significance for women writers and readers. Exploring the psychological, religious, and epistemological context of this anxiety, DeLamotte argues that the Gothic vision focuses simultaneously on the private demons of the psyche and the social realities that helped to shape them. Her analysis includes works of English and American authors, among them Henry James, Mary ...

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Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic 1990, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195056938

Hardcover