Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University of South Wales
Book title
Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
University of Wales Press
ISBN of book
978-0-7083-2574-2
Year of publication
2013
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
1 - English Research Group
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
Female Gothic Histories offers a particularly extensive and complex theorisation of the development of Gothic historical fictions through a period of around two and a half centuries. This long timespan - from the late eighteenth century to the twenty-first century – was necessary to trace the evolution of both the Gothic and the historical novel and show how intimately they are connected, especially for women writers. In addition, the project brings together both psychoanalytic and historically-informed theories of the Gothic and the historical novel to argue that Gothic historical fictions are themselves a kind of metahistory.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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