Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction by Andriano, Joseph

Paperback / softback. New. Our Ladies of Darkness opens with a question raised by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his 1835 sketch "The Haunted Mind": "What if the fiend should come in women's garments, with a pale beauty amid sin and desolation, and lie down by your side?" Joseph Andriano boldly attempts to answer this question by examining some fifteen texts in which such a haunting occurs, including Poe's "Ligeia," Hoffmann's "The Sandman," Irving's "The Adventure of the German Student," Cazotte's "Le Diable amoureux," and Aickman's "Ravissante." His close reading of the individual texts leads to illuminating intertextual parallels, drawn through an archetypal perspective, which creates coherence among the many recurring image-patterns and motifs. The haunting is an incursion into the male ego's dominion: the female demon is seen as a usurper or… Read More

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1993. Paperback. New. 196 pages. 8.80x6.00x0.60 inches.

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1993. Paperback. New. 196 pages. 8.80x6.00x0.60 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.