Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
Contents
What's female about Gothic? -- Dreams and visions -- Woman as Gothic vision (The Italian) -- The woman on the bed (Frankenstein) -- Charlotte Brontë's post-Gothic Gothic -- Gothic undone -- Eva's curl (Uncle Tom's Cabin) -- Exorcising the mother (Daniel Deronda) -- Tableau mort (The house of mirth) -- Why would a textual mother haunt a house like this?