Victorian Gothic

Death, Dis-Ease, Desire and Doubling in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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by Ruth Robbins,

Edited by Julian Wolfreys

Palgrave

Due/Published May 2000, 264 pages, cloth

ISBN 0312231695

To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this question as it offers a revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations, in which the Gothic is found to haunt all aspects of Victorian literature and culture. Moreover, Victorian Gothic connects its disparate areas of research in returning repeatedly to the question of the constitution of the subject.

Contents

Introduction--Ruth Robbins & Julian Wolfreys
 Part I: "You could die laughing": The Gothic-Comic Impulse
 Resurrecting the Regency--Victor Sage
 Urban Disturbances or, Doubling Dickens--Julian Wolfreys
 Designing Gourmet Children or, Kids for Dinner--James R. Kincaid

 Part II: Gothic Affections
 The "Anxious Dream"--Marion Wynne-Davies
 Ideal Manhood Closed in Meal Man--Jodi-Anne George

 Part III: Gothic Subjectiveness and Technologies of the Uncanny
 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Literary Influence, and the Uncanny--Alison Chapman
 Apparitions Can Be Deceptive--Ruth Robbins
 Adventures in Neo-Mesmerism 1880-1900--Roger Luckhurst

 Part IV: The Returns of the Repressed
 "This monstrous soul-life"--Moyra Haslett
 Close Encounters of the Other Kind--Meike Prescher
 Archaeology and Gothic Desire--Richard Pearson
 Gothic and Supernatural--Peter Morey

 Index