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Industrial Gothic Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Gothic literary studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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