Middlebrow Gothic — Dark Domesticity in British Popular Fiction, 1920-1960

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae Middlebrow Gothic yn archwilio potensial sinistr a threisgar priodas, teulu, cartref a chymuned fel y'i portreadir gan amrywiaeth o awduron benywaidd, gan gynnwys Agatha Christie, Daphne du Maurier ac Elizabeth Bowen.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Middlebrow Gothic examines the sinister and violent potential of marriage, family, home and community as portrayed by a range of women writers, including Agatha Christie, Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Bowen.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Homing in on the ‘middlebrow Gothic’, Christopher Yiannitsaros and Rebecca Mills Part I: Dangerous homes, dangerous families Chapter 1: The yellow wall-paper: Interior decorating and the family romance in Agatha Christie’s Sleeping Murder’, Christopher Yiannitsaros Chapter 2: Subverting and distorting the home in a corpus of Weird domestic fiction from Handheld Press, 1920–1948, Kate Macdonald Part II: Dark places, Gothic geographies Chapter 3: Bordering the Gothic: the ‘Feminine Middlebrow’ and Anglophone Welsh Writing, Diana Wallace Chapter 4: ‘It doesn’t take a witch to see goat-prints’: Gothic palimpsests and remote communities in Golden Age detective fiction, Brittain Bright and Rebecca Mills Chapter 5: Queer spaces and monstrous women in Molly Keane’s Gothic parody Devoted Ladies (1934), Christopher Yiannitsaros and Rebecca Mills Part III: The post-war Gothic condition Chapter 6: Finding refuge in the spectre of war in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World Of Love (1955), Layla Ferrández Melero Chapter 7: Middlebrow Gothic in Elizabeth Taylor’s novels, 1945–53: ‘A Climate of Melancholia’, Sue Kennedy Chapter 8: Imagined pasts and invading presents: The myth of experience in Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel (1951) and The Scapegoat (1957), Laurie B. Huggett Afterword: Placing, inhabiting and observing the middlebrow gothic, Simon Thomas Bibliography

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Christopher Yiannitsaros is an independent scholar. Rebecca Mills is Senior Lecturer in English and Communication at Bournemouth University.