Victorian Gaslighting John Dickie

Victorian Gaslighting John DickieReads gaslighting as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of the Victorian British Empire. Victorian Gaslighting is the first literary cultural history of gaslighting, a term derived from the haunting neo Victorian play Gas Light (1938), which tells the story of a sadistic husband who manipulates his wife into believing shes losing her mind. The collection traces the type of emotional abuse we find in the

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Slaughter investigates how university involvement in high technology influences higher education policy

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Featuring ghost stories