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Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions »
Authors: Diane Long Hoeveler (Editor), Tamar Heller
ISBN-13: 9780873529075, ISBN-10: 0873529073
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Diane Long Hoeveler
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Series | ||
| Introduction to the Volume | ||
| Pt. 1 | Materials | |
| Pt. 2 | Approaches | |
| Introduction | 35 | |
| "And Still Insists He Sees the Ghosts": Defining the Gothic | 39 | |
| Philosophy and the Gothic Novel | 46 | |
| The Gothic and Ideology | 58 | |
| Teaching the Gothic through the Visual Arts | 66 | |
| The Horrors of Misogyny: Feminist Psychoanalysis in the Gothic Classroom | 73 | |
| Teaching the Gothic and the Scientific Context | 83 | |
| The First English Gothic Novel: Walpole's The Castle of Otranto | 90 | |
| Early Women's Gothic Writing: Historicity and Canonicity in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron and Sophia Lee's The Recess | 99 | |
| Teaching the Early Female Canon: Gothic Feminism in Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Austen, Dacre, and Shelley | 105 | |
| Suffering through the Gothic: Teaching Radcliffe | 115 | |
| Teaching the Male Gothic: Lewis, Beckford, and Stevenson | 122 | |
| Teaching the Homosocial in Godwin, Hogg, and Wilde | 127 | |
| Teaching the Gothic Novel and Dramatic Adaptations | 133 | |
| Teaching Irish Gothic: Big-House Displacements in Maturin and Le Fanu | 140 | |
| Fear of Furniture: Commodity Gothicism and the Teaching of Victorian Literature | 148 | |
| Hearts of Darkness: Teaching Race, Gender, and Imperialism in Victorian Gothic Literature | 159 | |
| Surveying the Vampire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature | 168 | |
| Teaching Contemporary Female Gothic: Murdoch, Carter, Atwood | 177 | |
| Historicizing the American Gothic: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland | 184 | |
| Using Narrative Form to Teach Poe's Gothic Fiction | 190 | |
| Teaching the Doppelganger in American Gothic Fiction: Poe and James | 196 | |
| The Fall of the House of the Seven Gables and Other Ambiguities of the American Gothic | 202 | |
| Supernatural Transmissions: Turn-of-the-Century Ghosts in American Women's Fiction: Jewett, Freeman, Wharton, and Gilman | 208 | |
| Teaching the African American Gothic: From Its Multiple Sources to Linden Hills and Beloved | 215 | |
| Making the Case: Teaching Stephen King and Anne Rice through the Gothic Tradition | 223 | |
| Teaching the Gothic in an Interdisciplinary Honors Class | 230 | |
| Involving Resistant Readers: Exploring the Gothic through Role-Playing and Identity Writing | 237 | |
| Teaching Gothic Literature through Filmic Adaptations | 244 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 253 | |
| Survey Participants | 257 | |
| Works Cited | ||
| Index | 301 |
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