Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prelude: Bluebeard -- Context: History, Houses, and Masculinities -- Methods: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Liminal Spaces -- Bluebeard's 'Closet:' Gothic Novels -- Phallic Power: Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto -- The Power of Absolute Spatial Access: Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho -- A 'Male Heroine:' William Godwin's Caleb Williams -- The Contested Secret Room: Sensation Novels -- Powerless Landlords: Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White -- Performing Subversion: Wilkie Collins' No Name -- A Female Bluebeard: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret -- Globalising the 'Closet:' Henry James -- Masculine Disempowerment in a Woman's Mansion: Henry James' "The Aspern Papers" -- Female Power in the Cage of Knowledge: Henry James' "In the Cage" -- Autoerotic Paranoia in the 'Closet:' Henry James' "The Jolly Corner" -- Coda -- Works Cited -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (235 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839434680
Series Statement:
Lettre Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5493887
Language:
English
Note:
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