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George Eliot and the Gothic Novel

Author : Royce Mahawatte
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708325777
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book George Eliot and the Gothic Novel written by Royce Mahawatte and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Eliot and the Gothic Novel is the first monograph to systematically explore George Eliot’s relationship to Gothic genres. It considers the ways in which the author’s ethics link to sensational story-telling tropes. Reappraising the major works of fiction, this study compares passages of Eliot’s writing with sequences from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic works. Royce Mahawatte examines Eliot’s deployment of, for example, the incarcerated heroine in Middlemarch, doppelgangers in Romola and vampiric queerness in Daniel Deronda. In doing so he lifts Eliot from the boundaries of social realism and places her within a broader and richer Victorian literary scene than has been previously considered.

Ghosts of the Gothic

Author : Judith Wilt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400857503
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of the Gothic written by Judith Wilt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascinating study of what, during the last decade, rekindled an avid readership, Judith Wilt proposes a new theory of Gothic fiction that challenges its reputation as merely a formula to be outgrown or a stock of images for the creation of terror. Emphasizing instead its status as an enduring component of the imagination, she establishes the Gothic as the mothering" form for three other popular genres--detective, historical, and science fiction. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A Study Guide for George Eliot's "Lifted Veil"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410351173
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for George Eliot's "Lifted Veil" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for George Eliot's "Lifted Veil," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Evangelical Gothic

Author : Christopher Herbert
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813943418
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Evangelical Gothic written by Christopher Herbert and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great religious revival, often lauded in later scholarship as a "moral revolution," is depicted as an evil conspiracy centered on the attempted dismantling of the humanitarian moral culture of the nation. Examining foundational Evangelical writings by John Wesley and William Wilberforce alongside novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Bram Stoker, and others, Herbert contends that the realistic popular novel of the time was constitutionally alien to Evangelical ideology and even, to some extent, took its opposition to that ideology as its core function. This provocative argument illuminates the frequent linkage of Evangelicalism in nineteenth-century fiction with the characteristic imagery of the Gothic–with black magic, with themes of demonic visitation and vampirism, and with a distinctive mood of hysteria and panic.

The Lifted Veil

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513275402
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Lifted Veil written by George Eliot and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latimer is cursed with psychic abilities that allow him to see the future, yet he’s unable to avoid the dark turn of his own life. What many consider a gift, he sees as a curse that has destroyed his ability to have normal relationships. Latimer can hear people’s deepest thoughts and has visions of their impending future. It’s a power he acquired at a young age following a brief illness. Latimer loathes his ability, as it has made it nearly impossible for him to make genuine connections. He unknowingly uncovers dark secrets that reveal the worst of humanity. Despite this foresight, Latimer’s desire to control his own narrative blinds him to an inevitable outcome. The Lifted Veil is a unique entry in Eliot’s literary catalogue. It was released the same year as her debut novel, Adam Bede, and is a stark departure from her usual themes. It highlights a different point-of-view and Eliot’s diverse storytelling ability. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Lifted Veil is both modern and readable.

Queering the Gothic

Author : William Hughes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526125455
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Queering the Gothic written by William Hughes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth century and the present, the contributors explore the relationship between reading Gothically and reading Queerly, making this collection both an important reassessment of the Gothic tradition and a significant contribution to scholarship on queer theory. Writers discussed include William Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, George Du Maurier, Oscar Wilde, Eric, Count Stenbock. E. M. Forster, Antonia White, Melanie Tem, Poppy Z. Brite, and Will Self. There is also exploration of non-text media including an analysis of Michael Jackson’s pop videos. Arranged chronologically, the book establishes links between texts and periods and examines how conjunctions of ‘queer’, ‘gay’, and ‘lesbian’ can be related to, and are challenged by, a Gothic tradition. All of the chapters were specially commissioned for the collection, and the contributors are drawn from the forefront of academic work in both Gothic and Queer Studies.

Gothic Reflections

Author : Peter Garrett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724282
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Reflections written by Peter Garrett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Gothic and mainstream Victorian fiction in a larger literary and cultural field, Peter K. Garrett argues that the oppositions usually posed between them are actually at work within both. He further shows how, by offering alternative versions of its stories, nineteenth-century Gothic fiction repeatedly reflects on narrative force, the power exerted by both writers and readers.Beginning with Poe's theory and practice of the Gothic tale as an exercise (or fantasy) of authorial power, Garrett then reads earlier eighteenth-century and Romantic Gothic fiction for comparable reflexive implications. Throughout, he stresses the ways authors doubled both characters and narrative perspectives to raise issues of power and authority in the tension between central deviant figures and social norms. Garrett then shows how the great nineteenth-century monster stories Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula self-consciously link the extremity and isolation of their deviant figures with the social groups they confront. These narratives, he argues, move from a Romantic concern with individual creation and responsibility to a Victorian affirmation of social solidarity that also reveals its dependence on the binding force of exclusionary violence. The final section of the book extends its investigation of Gothic reflections on narrative force into the more realistic social and psychological fiction of Dickens, Eliot, and James.

The Lifted Veil

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542886055
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Lifted Veil written by George Eliot and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction.

George Eliot - the Lifted Veil

Author : George Eliot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book George Eliot - the Lifted Veil written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous--gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing. It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the only time she ever used a first-person narrator, and it is the only time she wrote about the supernatural.The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can't help trying to subvert his vividly glimpsed destiny, it is easy to read The Lifted Veil as being autobiographically revealing--of Eliot's sensitivity to public opinion and her awareness that her days concealed behind a pseudonym were doomed to a tragic unveiling (as indeed came to pass soon after this novella's publication). But it is easier still to read the story as the exciting and genuine precursor of a moody new form, as well as an absorbing early masterpiece of suspense.Includes a biography of the author.

Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel

Author : Joseph Wiesenfarth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel written by Joseph Wiesenfarth and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that relates Austen and Trollope, Bronte and Dickens to Eliot, James, Hardy and Ford? How do novels like Pride and Prejudice and Barchester Towers and novels like Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations become part of Middlemarch, The Portrait of a Lady, Jude the Obscure and Parade's End? For Joseph Wiesenfarth, the relationships and connections are bound up in what he calls Gothic Manners. His argument is that the salient elements of two genres, that of the novel of manners and that of the new Gothic novel, come together and form a synthesis which accounts, in good part, for the greatness of classical English fiction.

The Lifted Veil Illustrated

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book The Lifted Veil Illustrated written by George Eliot and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).

A History of English Prose Fiction

Author : Bayard Tuckerman
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781436732901
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book A History of English Prose Fiction written by Bayard Tuckerman and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Lifted Veil

Author : George Eliot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Lifted Veil written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Eliot's novella "The Lifted Veil" was first published in 1859. Eliot had written "The Lifted Veil" between the publication of her first novel Adam Bede, and that of her second novel, The Mill on the Floss. Eliot's publisher was hesitant to publish the story, because it was nothing like Adam Bede, for which she had gained critical acclaim. He was concerned that this tale of horror would be bad for her literary reputation, but reluctantly published it in a literary journal, albeit anonymously."The Lifted Veil" concerns themes of fate, extrasensory perception, the mystery of life and life after death. Eliot's interest in these themes stemmed partly from her own struggles with religious faith, as she was an extremely devout Christian as a child and young adult who later renounced Christianity completely. She also felt that she herself, like Latimer, the main character in "The Lifted Veil," had extrasensory powers of perception, which she referred to as "double consciousness."While Eliot came to be considered one of the greatest novelists of the 19th Century during her lifetime, "The Lifted Veil" is one of her lesser-known stories, probably because it is so different from the realist novels for which she is so well known. Yet, while is does not seem to match the rest of her ouevre, "The Lifted Veil" does fit squarely into the Victorian tradition of Gothic horror stories, which began with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and included Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), as well as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1895). Such works of fiction were precursors of modern horror movies, such as Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, and Nightmare on Elm Street, as well as modern horror fiction, such as the novels of Stephen King.

The Lifted Veil

Author : George George Eliot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521102251
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Lifted Veil written by George George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Lifted Veil by George Eliot The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as merely a writer of romances.

The Lifted Veil

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The Lifted Veil written by George Eliot and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Eliot's novella ''The Lifted Veil'' was first published in 1859. Eliot had written ''The Lifted Veil'' between the publication of her first novel Adam Bede, and that of her second novel, The Mill on the Floss. Eliot's publisher was hesitant to publish the story, because it was nothing like Adam Bede, for which she had gained critical acclaim. He was concerned that this tale of horror would be bad for her literary reputation, but reluctantly published it in a literary journal, albeit anonymously. ''The Lifted Veil'' concerns themes of fate, extrasensory perception, the mystery of life and life after death. Eliot's interest in these themes stemmed partly from her own struggles with religious faith, as she was an extremely devout Christian as a child and young adult who later renounced Christianity completely. She also felt that she herself, like Latimer, the main character in ''The Lifted Veil, '' had extrasensory powers of perception, which she referred to as ''double consciousness.''

Gothic (Re)Visions

Author : Susan Wolstenholme
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791412190
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Gothic (Re)Visions written by Susan Wolstenholme and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic fiction usually has been perceived as the special province of women, an attraction often attributed to a thematics of woman-identified issues such as female sexuality, marriage, and childbirth. But why these issues? What is specifically "female" about "Gothic?" This book argues that Gothic modes provide women who write with special means to negotiate their way through their double status as women and as writers, and to subvert the power relationships that hinder women writers. Current theories of "gendered" observation complicate the idea that Gothic-marked fiction relies on composed, individual scenes and visual metaphors for its effect. The texts studied here--by Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Edith Wharton--explode the authority of a unitary, centralized narrative gaze and establish instead a diffuse, multi-angled textual position for "woman." Gothic moments in these novels create a textualized space for the voice of a "woman writer," as well as inviting the response of a "woman reader."

Victorian Hauntings

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350317713
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Hauntings written by Julian Wolfreys and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions: What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return within their texts? In what ways do the traces of such "ghost writing" surface in the works of Dickens, Tennyson, Eliot and Hardy? How does the work of spectrality, revenance and the uncanny transform materially both the forms of the literary in the Victorian era and our reception of it today? Beginning with an expoloration of matters of haunting, the uncanny, the gothic and the spectral, Julian Wolfreys traces the ghostly resonances at work in Victorian writing and how such persistence addresses isues of memory and responsibility which haunt the work of reading. 'Taking the familiar genre of the Gothic as a point of departure and revisiting it through Derridean theory, Wolfreys' book, the first application of "hauntology" to the domain of Victorian Studies is a remarkable achievement. Wolfreys never reduces reading to instrumentality but remains alert to all the potentialities of the texts he reads with a great attention to their idiosyncrasies. Victorian Hauntings should bring a new tone to Victorian Studies, this clever book is quite perfect.' - Jean Michel Rabate, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania 'You'd have to be dead to know more about ghosts than Julian Wolfreys.' - Martin McQuillan, University of Leeds