Industrial Gothic : Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature.

By:

Marshall, Bridget M

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781786837714

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Industrial GothicDDC classification:

823.0872909

LOC classification:

PN3448.G68 M377 2021

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Contents:

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Weaving a Transatlantic Gothic Industrial History -- 1 The Industrial Gothic Novel -- 2 Industrializing the Gothic Victim/Heroine: Mill Girls and Factory Girls -- 3 The Carceral Gothic and the Cotton Industrial Complex -- 4 Old and New Industrial Horrors: Monsters and Disabled Bodies -- 5 The Industrial Environment: EcoGothic Horrors -- Epilogue Unravelling the Industrial Gothic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was a form used to depict and critique the dangerous labour conditions faced by workers during the Industrial Revolution.

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The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was a form used to depict and critique the dangerous labour conditions faced by workers during the Industrial Revolution.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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