Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America

253 Pages·2008·26.21 MB·English

by  Avril Horner

Le Gothic
Le Gothic
Influences and Appropriations in Europe
and America
Edited by
Avril Horner
Professor of English, Kingston University
and
Sue Zlosnik
Professor of English, Manchester Metropolitan University
* Introduction, selection and editorial matter CI Avril Homer and
Sue Zlosnik 2008
Individual chapters Cl the contributors 2008
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Figures x
Notes on the Contributors xi
1 Introduction 1
Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik
Part I The Paris Nexus
2 Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, Leroux's Le Fantome de l'Opera 15
and the Changing Functions of the Gothic
Jerrold E. Hogle
3 Edgar Allan Poe in Paris: The Flaneur, the Detournement 38
and the Gothic Spaces of the Nineteenth-Century City
Linnie Blake
4 Blood in Paris: Transformations of Revolutionary Gothic SO
in Henry James and Elizabeth Bowen
Raphaellngelbien
Part II Channel Crossings
5 'How do we ape thee, France!' The Cult of Rousseau
in Women's Gothic Writing in the 1790s 67
Angela Wright
6 Huysmans, Machen and the Gothic Grotesque, 83
Or: The Way Up is the Way Down
Alison Milbank
7 Gothic Permutations from the 1790s to the 1970s: 100
Rethinking the Marquis de Sade's Legacy
Maria Vara
8 Dracula's Daughters: Angela Carter and Pierrette 116
Fleutiaux's Vampiric Exchanges
Rebecca Munford
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Part III Transatlantic Voyages
9 Beast's Triumph over Beauty in Gothic Film 137
Kathy Justice Gentile
10 'Who is the third who walks always beside you?' Eliot, 151
Stoker and Stetson in The Waste Land
William Hughes
11 Calvinist Gothic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown's 166
Wieland, or the Transformation and James Hogg's The Private
Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Carol Margaret Davison
12 Colonial Ghosts: Mimicking Dickens in America 185
Andrew Smith
Part IV Coda: Other Directions
13 Translating Technologies: Dickens, Kafka and the Gothic 201
Barry Murnane
14 A Voyage through the Phantom Museum 219
David Punter
Index 243
Acknowledgements
This collection of essays derives from the 'Gothic Voyages' conference
we organized in 2004, at the Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris. The
conference attracted scholars from Europe and North America who
gathered there to explore the relationship between Anglophone Gothic
and European culture. Thanks are due not only to the Foundation,
which allowed us to use their magnificent building on the banks of
the Seine free of charge, but also to all who took part in three days of
stimulating debate.
We should also like to thank our colleagues at Kingston and Manchester
for their interest in the project and the members of the International
Gothic Association who ensure that Gothic studies continue to chal
lenge established boundaries. Paula Kennedy at Palgrave Macmillan
deserves special gratitude for believing that this selection of essays
would make a fine book; Christabel Scaife has been most helpful in
supporting us through the publication process.
Finally, as ever, a big thank you to our families who always put all of
this into a larger context.
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List of Figures
1. Line engraving by Cornelius Huyberts, 1709 223
2. Slip of paper, typed by William Witt, 1919 225
3. Shrunken head (tsantsa), late nineteenth/early twentieth 227
century
4. Skull inscribed in French with phrenological markings, 229
nineteenth century
5. Wooden hand with brass wrist plate and leather glove, 232
1880-1920
6. Steel hand and forearm with brass wrist mountings and 234
leather upper arm socket, c. 1890
7. Coloured lithograph of babies at a maternity hospital 236
refusing to breast feed until the Houses [of Parliament] are
dissolved, by J. E. Chaponniere, n.d.
8. Cased induction coil made by E. Ducretet, 1870-1910 239
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Notes on the Contributors
Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Manchester
Metropolitan University, where she teaches film. Her core research
interest is the philosophy, psychology and politics of horror. She has
published widely in film, literary and cultural studies. Her most recent
publication is The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma
and National Identity (Manchester University Press, 2008).
Carol Margaret Davison is Assodate Professor of English Literature at the
University of Windsor, Canada. A former Canada-US Fulbright scholar
and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
(University of Edinburgh), she is the author of Anti-Semitism and British
Gothic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), the editor of the award
winning collection Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century,
1897-1997 (Dundurn Press, 1997), and the co-editor of a spedal issue on
Marie Corelli for the journal Women's Writing (2006). She is currently
completing British Gothic Literature, 1764-1824, an introductory mono
graph to the Gothic, for the University of Wales Press.
Kathy Justice Gentile is Director of the Institute for Women's and
Gender Studies and teaches courses in Gothic fiction at the University
of Missouri-St. Louis. She has published a book on the twentieth
century British novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett and is currently com
pleting a book on the American twentieth-century writer jane Bowles.
She has also written essays on the uncanny, female Gothic writers and
Henry james's 'Beast in the jungle'.
Jerrold E. Hogle is Professor of English, University Distinguished
Professor and Vice Provost for Instruction at the University of Arizona,
as well as a Past President of the International Gothic Assodation. He
has published widely on Gothic texts, as well as Romantic literature
and literary theory. Two of his most recent books are The Cambridge
Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and
The Undergrounds of 'The Phantom of the Opera': Sublimation and the
Gothic in Leroux's Novel and its Progeny (St. Martin's Press/Palgrave,
2002). He is now at work on a study of the cultural 'baggage' carried by
the Gothic into Romantic texts.
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