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Book SynopsisBrings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family -- .
Table of Contents1. Introduction – Agnes Andeweg and Sue Zlosnik
2. Matriarchal picture identification in first-wave British Gothic fiction – Kamilla Elliott
3. ‘Those most intimately concerned’: the strength of chosen family in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic short fiction – Ardel Haefele-Thomas
4. The mad woman in the attic of Labuwangi: Couperus and colonial Gothic –Rosemarie Buikema
5. Seed from the east, seed from the west, which one will turn out best? The demonic adoptee in The Bad Seed (1954) –Elisabeth Wesseling
6. ‘Children misbehaving in the walls!’ or, Wes Craven’s suburban family values – Bernice M. Murphy
7. Fathers, friends, and families: Gothic kinship in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary – John Sears
8. Sisterhood is monstrous: Gothic imagery in Dutch feminist fiction – Agnes Andeweg
9. The political uncanny of the family: Patricia Duncker’s The Deadly Space Between and The Civil Partnership Act – Anne Quéma
10. Violent households: the family destabilised in The Monk (1796), Zofloya, or the Moor (1818), and Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) – Joanne Watkiss
11. ‘As much a family as anyone could be, anywhere ever’: revisioning the family in Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls – William Hughes
12. Gothic half bloods: maternal kinship in Rowling's Harry Potter series – Ranita Chatterjee
13. ‘They fuck you up’ – revaluations of the family in contemporary British horror film: Steven Sheil’s Mum & Dad – Johannes Schlegel
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