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Postfeminist Gothic

Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Benjamin A. Brabon

    1. Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

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  2. Stéphanie Genz

    1. University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction:Postfeminist Gothic

    • Benjamin A. Brabon, Stéphanie Genz
    Pages 1-15

  3. Dark Departures: Contemporary Women’s Writing after the Gothic

    • Lucie Armitt
    Pages 16-29

  4. Neo-Splatter: Bride of Chucky and the Horror of Heteronormativity

    • Judith Halberstam
    Pages 30-42

  5. Bite-Size Pieces: Disassembling the Gothic Villain in Witchblade

    • Rhonda V. Wilcox
    Pages 43-55

  6. The Spectral Phallus: Re-Membering the Postfeminist Man

    • Benjamin A. Brabon
    Pages 56-67

  7. (Re)Making the Body Beautiful: Postfeminist Cinderellas and Gothic Tales of Transformation

    • Stéphanie Genz
    Pages 68-84

  8. The Stepford Wives: What’s a Living Doll to Do in a Postfeminist World?

    • Anne Williams
    Pages 85-98

  9. The Postfeminist Filmic Female Gothic Detective: Reading the Bodily Text in Candyman

    • Diane Long Hoeveler
    Pages 99-113

  10. Moving beyond Waste to Celebration: The Postcolonial/ Postfeminist Gothic of Nalo Hopkinson’s “A Habit of Waste”

    • Gina Wisker
    Pages 114-125

  11. George Elliott Clarke’s Beatrice Chancy: Sublimity, Pain, Possibility

    • Donna Heiland
    Pages 126-139

  12. Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility

    • Claire Knowles
    Pages 140-153

  13. She: Gothic Reverberations in Star Trek: First Contact

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 154-169

  14. Flight of the Heroine

    • Fred Botting
    Pages 170-185

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 186-189
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About this book

This book explores new critical ground by addressing the intersection of two contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic. This collection of original and exciting essays examines a number of Gothic texts, from Anne Radcliffe's romances to modern horror films, in conjunction with diverse postfeminist theories, from backlash to postmodern feminism.

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' Postfeminist Gothic makes a critically important reappraisal of gender scripts in a range of Gothic narratives. Its examination of textual and visual forms, including film and television, provides a comprehensive reconsideration of the culture of the Gothic from the 1970s to the present day. Crucially, the volume explores how debates about gender can be traced within the Gothic and so brings to light how identity is constructed in postmodernity. Written by experts in their field, these essays make a provocative and groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on the Female Gothic, Gender Studies, and Gothic Studies.' - Professor Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    Benjamin A. Brabon

  • University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

    Stéphanie Genz

About the editors

LUCIE ARMITT Professor of English, University of Salford, UK FRED BOTTING Director of the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, UK LINDA DRYDEN Reader in Literature and Culture, Napier University, UK JUDITH HALBERSTAM Professor of English, University of Southern California, USA DONNA HEILAND Independent scholar DIANE LONG HOEVELER Professor of English, Marquette University, USA CLAIRE KNOWLES Associate Lecturer, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania RHONDA V. WILCOX Professor of English, Gordon College, Barnesville, USA ANNE WILLIAMS Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA GINA WISKER Head of Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Brighton, UK

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