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

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.…”
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