English Literature. Vol. 7 - Dicembre 2020

The Representation of the Wonderful and the Preternatural between the Gothic Novel and Fin-de-Siècle Literature

Table of Contents: Introduction: The Supernatural between Fact and Fiction, from the Gothic to the Fin de Siècle Flavio Gregori, Elisa Bizzotto SECTION 1. The Representation of the Wonderful and the Preternatural between the Gothic Novel and Fin-de-Siècle Literature Foley Effects in the Gothic Sound in The Castle of Otranto John Bender The Supernatural Subject of the Sublime in Burke and Radcliffe: A Reading of The Mysteries of Udolpho Zak Watson “Things that Make One Doubt if They be Mad or Sane” Coping with the Monstrous in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Laura Giovannelli Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fin-de-Siècle Vampire “Olalla” (1885) as ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’ Angelo Riccioni Beyond the Boundaries of Realism Monstrous Islands and Literary Hybrids at the Fin de Siècle in Conan Doyle’s, R. L. Stevenson’s and H. G. Wells’s Fiction Julie Gay Realism and the Supernatural in Ghost Stories of the Fin de Siècle Nick Freeman SECTION 2. Miscellany “Our Filthy Liues in Swines are Shewd”: Deformed Pigs, Religious Disquiet and Propaganda in Elizabethan England Luca Baratta Literary Transmigration George Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Spirit of Transatlantic Exchange Rebecca Soares

English Literature

7 (2020)

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