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Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, 1850-1950

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From: Gothic Studies
Date: 20070501
Author:Wallace, Diana

Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, 1850-1950, by Dennis Denisoff (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), ISBN: 1403921636, 223 pp., £45.00 hb.

How what we see, or think we see, may be shaped by who we are and what we feel - desire, serenity, fear, horror - is one of the earliest themes of the Gothic. The distortions of perception by emotion are central to Ann Radcliffe's technique of the explained supernatural, epitomised in the waxen figure Emily mistakes for a decaying corpse in The Mysteries of Udolpho. As Radcliffe recognised, it is what is obscure, what cannot be seen clearly, which ...

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