Women S Ghost Literature In Nineteenth Century Britain
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Women s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth Century Britain
Author | : Melissa Edmundson Makala |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780708325650 |
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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism.
The Perturbed Self
Author | : Mengxing Fu |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2021-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000431315 |
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By comparison of late nineteenth-century ghost stories between China and Britain, this monograph traces the entangled dynamics between ghost story writing, history-making, and the moulding of a gendered self. Associated with times of anxiety, groups under marginalisation, and tensions with orthodox narratives, ghost stories from two distinguished literary traditions are explored through the writings and lives of four innovative writers of this period, namely Xuan Ding (宣鼎) and Wang Tao (王韬) in China and Vernon Lee and E. Nesbit in Britain. Through this cross-cultural investigation, the book illuminates how a gendered self is constructed in each culture and what cultural baggage and assets are brought into this construction. It also ventures to sketch a common poetics underlying a "literature of the anomaly" that can be both destabilising and constructive, subversive, and coercive. This book will be welcomed by the Gothic studies community, as well as scholars working in the fields of women’s writing, nineteenth-century British literature, and Chinese literature.
The Perturbed Self
Author | : Mengxing Fu |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2021-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1003188222 |
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"By comparison of the late nineteenth-century ghost stories between China and Britain, this monograph traces the entangled dynamics between ghost story writing, history-making and the molding of a gendered self. Associated with times of anxiety, groups under marginalization and tensions with orthodox narratives, ghost stories from two distinguished literary traditions are explored through the writings and lives of four innovative writers of this period, namely Xuan Ding and Wang Tao in China and Vernon Lee and E. Nesbit in Britain. Through this cross-cultural investigation, the book illuminates how a gendered self is constructed in each culture and what cultural baggage and assets are brought into this construction. It also ventures to sketch a common poetics underlying a 'literature of the anomaly' that can be both destabilizing and constructive, subversive and coercive. This book will be welcomed by the community of gothic studies, as well as scholars working in the fields of women's writing, nineteenth-century British literature and Chinese literature"--
Avenging Angels Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers
Author | : Melissa Edmundson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2018-12-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1906469644 |
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In this electrifying collection, Melissa Edmundson showcases ten authors who led lives that challenged Victorian notions of how women should behave and brought those transgressive ideas into their fiction.
Women s Colonial Gothic Writing 1850 1930
Author | : Melissa Edmundson |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018-05-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783319769172 |
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This book explores women writers’ involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on women’s experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book investigates how women writers appropriated the Gothic genre—and its emphasis on fear, isolation, troubled identity, racial otherness, and sexual deviancy—in order to take these anxieties into the farthest realms of the British Empire. The chapters show how Gothic themes told from a woman’s perspective emerge in unique ways when set in the different colonial regions that comprise the scope of this book: Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Edmundson argues that women’s Colonial Gothic writing tends to be more critical of imperialism, and thereby more subversive, than that of their male counterparts. This book will be of interest to students and academics interested in women’s writing, the Gothic, and colonial studies.
The Haunted House in Women s Ghost Stories
Author | : Emma Liggins |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783030407520 |
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This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the gendering of the supernatural in terms of unease, denial, disorientation, confinement and claustrophobia within domestic space. Drawing on spatial theory by Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre and Elizabeth Grosz, it analyses the reoccupation and appropriation of space by ghosts, women and servants as a means of addressing the opposition between the past and modernity. The chapters consider a range of haunted spaces, including ancestral mansions, ghostly gardens, suburban villas, Italian churches and houses subject to demolition and ruin. The ghost stories are read in the light of women’s non-fictional writing on architecture, travel, interior design, sacred space, technology, the ideal home and the servant problem. Women writers discussed include Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Vernon Lee, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair and Elizabeth Bowen. This book will appeal to students and researchers in the ghost story, Female Gothic and Victorian and modernist women’s writing, as well as general readers with an interest in the supernatural.
Contemporary Women s Ghost Stories
Author | : Gina Wisker |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-06-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783030890544 |
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This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng Cho. Through the ghostly body, possessions and visitations, women’s ghost stories expose links between the political and personal, genocides and domestic tyrannies, providing unceasing reminders of violence and violations. Women, like ghosts, have historically lurked in the background, incarcerated in domestic spaces and roles by familial and hereditary norms. They have been disenfranchised legally and politically, sold on dreams of romance and domesticity. Like unquiet spirits that cannot be silenced, women’s ghost stories speak the unspeakable, revealing these contradictions and oppressions. Wisker’s book demonstrates that in terms of women’s ghost stories, there is much to point the spectral finger at and much to speak out about.
Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction
Author | : Kevin A. Morrison |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781476669038 |
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This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.