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Daughters of the House

Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction

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  • © 1992

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  1. Alison Milbank

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 1-24

  3. Breaking and Entering: Wilkie Collins’s Sensation Fiction

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 25-53

  4. Hidden and Sought: Wilkie Collins’s Gothic Fiction

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 54-79

  5. Housekeepers: Bleak House

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 80-101

  6. Ruination: Little Dorrit

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 102-120

  7. In the Passages of Desire: Great Expectations

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 121-139

  8. ‘Handling the Veil’: Charlotte Brontë

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 140-157

  9. The Haunted House: Sheridan Le Fanu

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 158-173

  10. Through a Glass Darkly: Uncle Silas

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 174-197

  11. Conclusion: Through the Looking Glass

    • Alison Milbank
    Pages 198-201

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 202-217
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Through innovative and controversial readings of Victorian Gothic and 'sensation' fiction, this book interrogates current feminist assumptions about the relation of women to the private sphere, and reveals the unexpectedly radical potential of this association. It is argued that this potential is an intrinsic aspect of the 'female' Gothic tradition traceable back to Ann Radcliffe. A new typology of 'male' and 'female' Gothic is shown to be relevant to contemporary French feminist debates about sexual difference.

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  • University of Manchester, UK

    Alison Milbank

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