George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
Genres, Gender and Feeling
Author(s) Royce Mahawatte
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Studies, Gender Studies, Gothic and Horror
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
- March 2013 · 288 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9780708325766
- · eBook - pdf - 9780708325773
- · eBook - epub - 9781783160334
Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian novel.
Introduction: 'half-womanish, half-ghostly'- George Eliot and the inheritance of the Gothic Part one: reimagining the genres of feeling 1. 'there was a demon in me': 'Janet's Repentence' and the evangelical Gothic 2. 'with two names written on it': sensation narratives in Adam Bede 3. 'of one texture with the rest of my existence': 'The Lifted Veil' and the tale of the supernatural Part two: uncanny women, fearing men 4. Counterfeit Gothic heroines in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch 5. Romola and Felix Holt, The Radical: the pursuit of Gothic men Finale: Daniel Deronda - sensationalised society, gothicized self