From Wollstonecraft to Stoker
Essays on Gothic and Victorian Sensation Fiction| By: | Marilyn Brock |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9780786440214 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780786454402 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2009 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Bronte. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements, such as dark secrets and forbidden sensations, to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.