The gothic vision three centuries of horror, terror and fear /

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Main Author: Cavallaro, Dani
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii
  • The Frame of Reference: Theoretical Debates on Horror, Terror and Fear 1
  • Part 1: Darkness
  • Introduction 21
  • 1 Dark Places 27
  • 2 Dark Times 38
  • 3 Dark Psyches 48
  • Part 2: Haunting
  • Introduction 61
  • 4 The Rhetoric of Haunting 65
  • 5 Spectral Forms 75
  • 6 Haunting Settings 85
  • Part 3: Narrative and the Self
  • Introduction 97
  • 7 Words and Visions 103
  • 8 Textual Identities 113
  • 9 Storytelling as Therapy 123
  • Part 4: Child and Adult
  • Introduction 135
  • 10 Families 141
  • 11 The Abandoned Child 150
  • 12 Childhood and Otherness 160
  • Part 5: Monstrosity
  • Introduction 171
  • 13 Vampires 179
  • 14 Hybrid and Grotesque Bodies 190
  • 15 The Abject 199
  • Epilogue 207.