From Wollstonecraft to Stoker
Download or Read eBook From Wollstonecraft to Stoker PDF written by Marilyn Brock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Marilyn Brock |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780786454402 |
ISBN-13 | : 0786454407 |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis From Wollstonecraft to Stoker by : Marilyn Brock
Book excerpt: 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.