Halfway houses: liminality and the haunted house motif in popular American Gothic fiction

Halfway Houses examines popular American Gothic fiction through a critical focus on what I call the ‘haunted house motif’. This motif, I argue, creates a distinctive narrative space, characterised by the key quality of liminality, in which historical events and processes impact upon the present. Hau...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Janicker, Rebecca
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44082/