Gothic kinship

Synopsis

This Work Brings Together Case Studies Of Gothic Kinship Ties In Film And Literature And Offers A Synthesis And Theorisation Of The Different Appearances Of The Gothic Family. Matriarchal Picture Indentification In First-wave British Gothic Fiction / Kamilla Elliott -- 'those Most Intimately Concerned': The Strenght Of Chosen Family In Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Short Fiction / Ardel Haefele-thomas -- The Madwoman In The Attic Of Labuwangi: Couperus And Colonical Gothic / Rosemarie Buikema -- Seed From The East, Seed From The West, Which One Will Turn Out Best? The Demonic Adoptee In The Bad Seed (1954) / Elisabeth Wesseling -- 'children Misbehaving In The Walls!' Or, Wes Craven's Suburban Familiy Values / Bernice M. Murphy -- Fathers, Friends And Families: Gothic Kindship In Stephen King's Pet Sematary / John Sears -- Sisterhood Is Monstrous: Gothic Imagery In Dutch Feminist Fiction / Agnes Andeweg -- The Political Uncanny Of The Family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between And The Civil Partnership Act / Anne Quema -- Violent Households: The Family Destabilized In The Monk (1796), Zofloya, Or The Moor (1818) And Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) / Joanne Watkiss -- 'as Much A Family As Anyone Could Be, Anywhere Ever': Revisioning The Family In Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls / William Hughes -- Gothic Half-bloods: Maternal Kinship In Rowling's Harry Potter Series / Ranita Chatterjee -- 'they Fuck You Up' -- Revaluations Of The Family In Contemporary British Horror Film: Steven Sheil's Mum & Dad / Johannes Schlegel. Edited By Agnes Andeweg And Sue Zlosnik. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.