TY - BOOK AU - Becker,Susanne TI - Gothic forms of feminine fictions SN - 0719053315 (pbk.) U1 - 813.08729099287 22 PY - 1999/// CY - Manchester, UK, New York PB - Manchester University Press KW - Canadian fiction KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - BUEsh KW - Women and literature KW - Canada KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Horror tales, Canadian KW - Gothic revival (Literature) KW - Women in literature KW - HHUUEENN KW - October2018 KW - November2020 KW - Reading book N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. I. Gothic forms -- feminine texts -- Ch. 1. Gothic contextualisation -- Ch. 2. Gothic texture -- Ch. 3. Gothic intertextuality --; pt. II. Neo-gothicism: from houses of fiction to textures of dress -- Ch. 4. Exploring gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women -- Ch. 5. Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle -- Ch. 6. Stripping the gothic: Aritha van Herk and No Fixed Address -- ; pt. III. Gothic times again: Two hundred years after Radcliffe -- Ch. 7. The neo-gothic experience -- Ch. 8. Exceeding postmodernism -- Ch. 9. Global escapes: nineties' gothica N2 - Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement ER -