Female Gothic Histories traces the development of women's Gothic historical fiction from Sophia Lee's The Recess in the late eighteenth century through the work of Elizabeth Gaskell, Vernon Lee, Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt to the bestselling novels of Sarah Waters in the twenty-first century. Often left out of traditional historical narratives, women writers have turned to Gothic historical fiction as a mode of writing which can both reinsert them into history and symbolise their exclusion. This study breaks new ground in bringing together thinking about the Gothic and the historical novel, and in combining psychoanalytic theory with historical contextualisation.
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女性哥特历史小说谱系研究，围绕着Irigaray弑母文化和寻找female genealogy的观点展开，分析了两百多年来一些作品中的经典motif如recess，murder of the mother。这个论题一开始看上去矛盾重重，哥特文学和历史小说看上去是两个截然两立的模式，哥特虽然追溯历史，但更多的是fantasy；历史小说更多则强调写实记录，当然新历史主义之后叙述性层面被增强。作者解释说... 女性哥特历史小说谱系研究，围绕着Irigaray弑母文化和寻找female genealogy的观点展开，分析了两百多年来一些作品中的经典motif如recess，murder of the mother。这个论题一开始看上去矛盾重重，哥特文学和历史小说看上去是两个截然两立的模式，哥特虽然追溯历史，但更多的是fantasy；历史小说更多则强调写实记录，当然新历史主义之后叙述性层面被增强。作者解释说实际上哥特小说和历史小说系出同源，较早的文本都是Sophia Lee的The Recess（这也挑战了Ellen Moers所认为的female gothic最早的作者是Radcliffe的说法），只是18世纪末才出现了分化。不过里面分析的一些作品到底是不是哥特小说待考，哥特文学和新哥特难以定义 (展开)