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The Female Gothic Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-14 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9780230245457 - The Female Gothic, Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith 9780230_222717_01_prexiv.indd i 8/12/2009 12:47:24 PM Also by Diana Wallace THE WOMAN’S HISTORICAL NOVEL: British Women Writers, 1900–2000 SISTERS AND RIVALS IN BRITISH WOMEN’S FICTION, 1914–1939 Also by Andrew Smith GOTHIC LITERATURE VICTORIAN DEMONS: Medicine, Masculinity and the Gothic at the fin de siècle GOTHIC RADICALISM: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century QUEERING THE GOTHIC (edited with William Hughes) TEACHING THE GOTHIC (edited with Anna Powell) EMPIRE AND THE GOTHIC: The Politics of Genre (edited with William Hughes) GOTHIC MODERNISMS (edited with Jeff Wallace) BRAM STOKER: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (edited with William Hughes) FICTIONS OF UNEASE: The Gothic from Otranto to the X-Files (edited with William Hughes and Diane Mason) DRACULA AND THE CRITICS Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-14 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9780230245457 - The Female Gothic, Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith 9780230_222717_01_prexiv.indd ii 8/12/2009 12:47:25 PM The Female Gothic New Directions Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-14 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9780230245457 - The Female Gothic, Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith 9780230_222717_01_prexiv.indd iii 8/12/2009 12:47:25 PM Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Diana Wallace & Andrew Smith 2009 Individual chapters © contributors 2009 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–22271–7 hardback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-14 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9780230245457 - The Female Gothic, Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith 9780230_222717_01_prexiv.indd iv 8/12/2009 12:47:26 PM For Eugenia DeLamotte In memoriam Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-14 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9780230245457 - The Female Gothic, Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith This page intentionally left blank Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-14 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9780230245457 - The Female Gothic, Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith Contents Acknowledgements ix Notes on the Contributors xi Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic 1 Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith 1. Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies 13 Lauren Fitzgerald 2. ‘The Haunting Idea’: Female Gothic Metaphors and Feminist Theory 26 Diana Wallace 3. ‘Mother Radcliff’: Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic 42 Robert Miles 4. Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels 60 Angela Wright 5. Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Gothic Grotesque 76 Alison Milbank 6. From Bluebeard’s Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic 98 Marie Mulvey-Roberts 7. Keeping It in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch 115 Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik 8. ‘I Don’t Want to be a [White] Girl’: Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic 133 - 2011-03-14 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright Meredith Miller 9. Children of the Night: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Female Gothic 152 Andrew Smith vii 10.1057/9780230245457 - The Female Gothic, Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith 9780230_222717_01_prexiv.indd vii 8/12/2009 12:47:27 PM viii Contents 10. Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Love 166 Anya Heise-von der Lippe 11. ‘Unhomely Moments’: Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic 180 Kirsti Bohata 12. Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction 196 Carol Margaret Davison Index 215 Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-14 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9780230245457 - The Female Gothic, Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith 9780230_222717_01_prexiv.indd viii 8/12/2009 12:47:27 PM Acknowledgements We would like to thank the delegates of the Female Gothic conference which was held at the University of Glamorgan in 2004. In that year we edited a special double issue of the journal Gothic Studies on the Female Gothic which was a result of the many productive discussions at that conference and we would like to thank William Hughes, the jour- nal’s editor, for supporting the project, and the International Gothic Association for sponsoring it. Many of the discussions which began at that conference have continued and the present volume has been gener- ated out of that shared enthusiasm. Alongside our general thanks to the delegates at that conference and for the stimulating dialogues which have been maintained, we also have our own friends and colleagues whom we would like to thank. Diana Wallace would like to thank Gavin Edwards and Meredith Miller for several stimulating conversations about the Gothic, meta- phor and history, and for useful comments on her essay in progress; her students on ‘The Female Gothic’ for their insights and humour over the years; and Jarlath and Seán for their forbearance during too many weekends spent working. Andrew Smith would like to thank Carol Margaret Davison for invit- ing him to deliver a paper on Shirley Jackson, on which his chapter for this volume is based, on a panel on the Female Gothic that she organised for the ‘Space, Haunting, Discourse’ conference at Karlstad University, Sweden in 2006 and to thank the delegates for their helpful comments. He would also like to thank Benjamin F. Fisher for inviting him to speak on an ‘American Gothic’ panel at the American Literature Association conference in San Francisco in 2008 where he also discussed Shirley Jackson and received very helpful responses from delegates. He would also like to thank Joanne Benson for her love, tolerance and support during the editing of this book. We would like to thank Paula Kennedy and Steven Hall at Palgrave for their forbearance and support. We would also like to thank Matthew - 2011-03-14 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright Frost at Manchester University Press for permission to reproduce Lauren Fitzgerald’s article from the Female Gothic special issue of Gothic Studies 6/1 May 2004. We would also like to thank Robert Miles for allowing us to reproduce the image used on the cover of this book. ix 10.1057/9780230245457 - The Female Gothic, Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith
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