Introduction: postfeminist gothic / Benjamin A. Brabon and Stéphanie Genz -- Dark departures: contemporary women's writing after the gothic / Lucie Armitt -- Neo-splatter: Bride of Chucky and the horror of heteronormativity / Judith Halberstam -- Bite-size pieces: disassembling the gothic villain in Witchblade / Rhonda V. Wilcox -- The spectral phallus: re-membering the postfeminist man / Benjamin A. Brabon -- (Re)making the body beautiful: postfeminist cinderellas and gothic tales of transformation / Stéphanie Genz -- The Stepford wives: what's a living doll to do in a postfeminist world? / Anne Williams -- The postfeminist filmic female gothic detective: reading the bodily text in Candyman / Diane Long Hoeveler -- Moving beyond waste to celebration: the postcolonial/postfeminist gothic of Nalo Hopkinson's "A habit of waste" / Gina Wisker -- George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy: sublimity, pain, possibility / Donna Heiland -- Sensibility gone mad: or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the heroine of sensibility / Claire Knowles -- She: gothic reverberations in Star Trek: first contact / Linda Dryden -- Flight of the heroine / Fred Botting.
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Explores new critical ground by addressing the intersection of two much debated and contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic. This edited collection of original essays examines a number of Gothic texts, from Anne Radcliffe's romances to modern horror films, in conjunction with diverse postfeminist theories, from backlash to postmodern feminism.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.