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Our ladies of darkness : feminine daemonology in male gothic fiction
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Our ladies of darkness : feminine daemonology in male gothic fiction

Author: Joseph Andriano
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joseph Andriano
ISBN: 0271008709 9780271008707
OCLC Number: 25370786
Description: viii, 182 p.; 24 cm.
Contents: Biondetta/Biondetto : Le diable amoureux as archetype: The devil in love ; The female demon as feminine daemon -- The feminine in The monk : from sublime Madonna to bleeding nun: Matilda and the Madonna ; The bleeding nun -- "Uncanny drives" : the depth psychology of E.T.A. Hoffmann: "The sandman" : the failure of vision ; "The mines at Falun : "mighty elements" of the psyche ; Syzygy -- "Animated corse" : archetypal travesties in three gothic tales: Washington Irving's headless bride : "The adventure of the German student" ; Théophile Gautier's defier of the Lord : "La morte amoureuse" ; Archetypal projection in "Ligeia" -- Victorian vamps : archetypes of sex and death: Anima as sigh from the depths : Thomas De Quincey's Suspiria de profundis ; "Our dual existence" : loving and dying in Le Fanu's "Carmilla" -- Dracula's lamiae : unholy circle -- Feminine obsession in two early tales of Henry James: The muse as Medusa : "Madonna of the future" ; Fetish vs. wife : the Juno archetype in "The last of Valerii" -- From fiend to friend : the daemonic feminine in modern gothic -- Conclusion: Archetypal dialects -- Appendix A Recognizing Anima -- Appendix B: Post-Jungian polemics.
Responsibility: Joseph Andriano.

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