Screening the Gothic

189 Pages·2005·1.47 MB·English

by  Lisa Hopkins

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creening the gothic
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Lisa S
creening the Gothic
Hopkins
university of texas press
Austin
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isbn0-292-70645-6(cl.:alk.paper)—
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1.Englishliterature—Historyandcriticism. 2.Gothic
revival(Literature)—GreatBritain. 3.English
literature—Adaptations—Historyandcriticism.
4.Horrortales,English—Filmandvideoadaptations.
5.Englishliterature—Filmandvideoadaptations.
6.Horrorfilms—Historyandcriticism. 7.Film
adaptations. I.Title.
pr408.g68h67 2005
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2004024535
ForChrisandSam
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Contents
acknowledgments ix
introduction:TheGothic:TowardsaDefinition xi
ChapterOne gothicrevenants:ATaleofThreeHamlets 1
ChapterTwo puttingthegothicin:Clarissa,SenseandSensibility,
MansfieldPark,andTheTimeMachine 27
ChapterThree takingthegothicout:’TisPityShe’saWhore,Mary
Shelley’sFrankenstein,TheWomaninWhite,andLady
Audley’sSecret 58
ChapterFour fragmentingthegothic:JaneEyreandDracula 88
ChapterFive gothicandthefamily:TheMummyReturns,HarryPot-
terandthePhilosopher’sStone,andTheLordoftheRings:
TheFellowshipoftheRing 116
conclusion 148
notes 153
workscited 161
index 167
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Acknowledgments
I
wouldliketothankAndrewBerzanskisandJimBurr
fortheirhelpingettingthisprojectofftheground;
thetwoanonymousreadersofthemanuscript;andRichardMcCarterfor
helpfarbeyondthecallofdutywiththeillustrations.Earlierversionsof
someofthechaptershaveappearedinthefollowingjournalsandbook,
andIamgratefulforpermissiontoreproducethemhere:partofchap-
teroneas‘‘‘Denmark’saPrison’:Branagh’sHamletandtheParadoxes
of Intimacy,’’EnterText1.2(Spring2001);partofchapterfouras‘‘The
RedandtheBlue: JaneEyreinthe1990s’’inClassicsinFilmandFic-
tion,editedbyDeborahCartmell,I.G.Hunter,HeidiKaye,andImelda
Whelehan(London:Pluto,2000),54–69;andpartsofchapterfiveas‘‘Re-
turningtotheMummy’’inPostmodernCulture(January2002)andinmy
GiantsofthePast:LiteratureandEvolution(Lewiston:BucknellUniver-
sityPress,2004)and‘‘HarryPotterandtheAcquisitionof Knowledge’’
inReadingHarryPotter:CriticalEssays,editedbyGiselleLizaAnatol
(GreenwoodPress,2003),25–34.