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BL
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581775
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b410994
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Williams, Anne,1947-
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| Title & Author
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Art of darkness : : a poetics of Gothic /\ Anne Williams.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 1995.
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xii, 311 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0226899063 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780226899060 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226899071 (paper : alk. paper)
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: 9780226899077 (paper : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.
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| Contents
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Gothic fiction's family romances -- The nightmare of history: acting on and acting out -- The house of Bluebeard: Gothic engineering -- Pope as Gothic "novelist": Eloisa to Abelard -- Symbolization and its discontents -- The nature of gothic -- Family plots -- Nightmère's milk: the male and female formulas -- Male Gothic: si(g)ns of the fathers -- Demon lovers: the monk -- Why are vampires afraid of garlic?: Dracula -- The female plot of Gothic fiction -- The male as "other" -- The fiction of feminine desires: Not the mirror but the lamp -- The eighteenth-century Psyche: The mysteries of Udolpho -- Dispelling the name of the father -- An "I" for an eye: The rime of the ancient mariner -- "Frost at midnight": (M)others and other strangers -- Keats and the names of the mother -- The mysteries of enlightenment: or, Dr. Freud's Gothic novel.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Horror tales, English-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Romanticism-- Great Britain.
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Poetics-- History-- 18th century.
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Poetics-- History-- 19th century.
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| LC Classification
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PR448.G6W55 1995
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| Parallel Title
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Darkness
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