Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock

ELEANOR SALOTTO is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Film Studies at Sweet Briar College, USA, where she teaches courses in Nineteenth-century British and continental literature and film studies.

Introduction The Haunted Hotel and the Ghostly Feminine Gothic Fragments: Wordless Narration in The Woman in White Phantasmagorical Narration in Bleak House Shadowing the Dead: First Person Narration in Our Mutual Friend Shopping for an 'I': The Ladies' Paradise and the Spectacle of Identity She's Not There: Vertigo and the Ghostly Feminine Grave Narrations: Dickens and the Novel Conclusion