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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction - The Maternal Gaze in the Gothic.- Part 1: The Gothic Heritage.- Chapter 2. The Gothic and Maternal Symbolism in the works of J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker.- Chapter 3. The more I saw the less they would: Subverting Hysteria and Surveillance in The Turn of the Screw, The Others and The Orphanage.- Part 2: Gothic Practices.- Chapter 4. Seeing is Believing: Spiritualism, Psychic Photography and the Maternal Gaze.- Chapter 5. Taken From Life: Memorial Portraiture, Divine Death and the Virgin Mary in the Photography of Julia Margaret Cameron.- Part 3: The Gothic Domestic.- Chapter 6. Guilty Pleasures: Incest and the Pre-Oedipal Maternal Tangle in Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Virginia Andrews' Dollanganger Saga and Misery Literature.- Chapter 7. The Maternal Gaze and the Gothic Abyss of the Internet.
