British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930

Our Own Ghostliness

AvVictoria Margree

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

This book explores women’s short supernatural fiction between the emergence of first wave feminism and the post-suffrage period, arguing that while literary ghosts enabled an interrogation of women’s changing circumstances, ghosts could have both subversive and conservative implications.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-19
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:292 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:203
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030271442

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Victoria Margree is Principal Lecturer in the Humanities, and Academic Programme Leader for the Humanities Programme at the University of Brighton, UK.

Recensioner i media

“Readers are likely to be excited by the many fascinating stories that this book has brought back to life.” (Clare A. Simmons, Victorian Studies, Vol. 63 (4), 2021)“This challenging and polemical study will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Victorian ghost story, modernism and women’s writing.” (Emma Liggins, Women's Writing, October 4, 2021)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Our Own Ghostliness.- (Other)Worldly Goods: Ghost Fiction as Financial Writing in Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Riddell.-Neither Punishment nor Poetry: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edith Nesbit and Female Death.- The Good Memsahib? Marriage, Infidelity and Empire in Alice Perrin’s Anglo-Indian Tales.- Haunted Modernity in the Uncanny Stories of May Sinclair, Eleanor Scott and Violet Hunt .- Conclusion.