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Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock

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  • © 2006

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  1. Eleanor Salotto
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Eleanor Salotto
    Pages 1-11

  3. Survival of the Unfittest: Collins’s The Haunted Hotel and The Woman in White

    • Eleanor Salotto
    Pages 13-41

  4. Phantasmagorical Narration in Bleak House

    • Eleanor Salotto
    Pages 43-60

  5. Shadowing the Dead: First Person Narration in Our Mutual Friend

    • Eleanor Salotto
    Pages 61-79

  6. Shopping for an “I”: Zola’s The Ladies’ Paradiseand the Spectacle of Identity

    • Eleanor Salotto
    Pages 81-100

  7. She’s Not There: Vertigo and the Ghostly Feminine

    • Eleanor Salotto
    Pages 101-117

  8. Grave Narrations: Dickens’s Later Writings

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    Pages 119-158

  9. Conclusion

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    Pages 159-161

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 163-198
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Looking at the gothic in Victorian fiction, the development of cinema and Hitchcock's Vertigo , this book explores the contained or repressed desires of both characters and plots which defy direct representation, resulting in obsession, fetishism and displacement engendering a novel account of the way in which the gothic becomes internalized.

About the author

ELEANOR SALOTTO is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Film Studies at Sweet Briar College, USA, where she teaches courses in Nineteenth-century British and continental literature and film studies.

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