Wicked Uncles and Haunted Cellars: What the Gothic Heroine Tells Us Today - Mary Phelan
Mary Phelan is a journalist and author, design philosopher and photographer. She is an art history graduate of University College London, and has a Master's degree in English Literature from the Open University. She loves chocolate, Greek mythology, dreams and ghosts – though not necessarily in that order. She is currently promoting book of literary analysis, Wicked Uncles and Haunted Cellars: What the Gothic Heroine Tells Us Today, just published by Greenwich Exchange. Her book on dream interpretation was published (2020) by Mandrake of Oxford as Dreams: Exploring Uncharted Depths of Consciousness.
GENRE: Literary Analysis
Blurb:
Wicked Uncles and Haunted Cellars: What The Gothic Heroine Tells Us Today establishes the undercurrents between the gothic genre and the development of literature in tandem with our inner fears and yearnings. This book identifies the strands that link Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, through nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, to the best-sellers of today. It explores the enduring popularity of the genre and links it with the conundrums that are common to people in every era.
