Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock [Hardcover]

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.Introduction The Haunted Hotel and the Ghostly Feminine Gothic Fragments: Wordless Narration in The Woman in White Phantasmagorical Narration in Bleak House Shadowing the Dead: First Person Narration in Our Mutual Friend Shopping for an 'I': The Ladies' Paradise and the Spectacle of Identity She's Not There: Vertigo and the Ghostly Feminine Grave Narrations: Dickens and the Novel ConclusionELEANOR 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.