The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-40754-4 (ISBN)
lt;p>Emma Liggins is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has previously published Odd Women? Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women's Fiction, 1850s-1930s (2014), as well as articles and chapters on Vernon Lee, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and modernist ghost stories.
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Elizabeth Gaskell: Old Nurses, Illegitimacy and the Ancestral Rural Home.- Chapter 2: Margaret Oliphant: Disinheritance, Scottish properties and the haunted garden.- Chapter 3: Vernon Lee: The Rapture of Old Houses and Decadent Italy.- Chapter 4: The Horrors of Suburbia in the Ghost Stories of E. Nesbit.- Chapter 5: 'Ghosts went out when Electricity Came In': Technology and the Domestic Interior in Edith Wharton's Ghost Stories.- Chapter 5: May Sinclair: Patriarchal Space and Haunted Libraries.- Chapter 7: Elizabeth Bowen: From the Suburban Villa to Bomb-Damaged London.- Conclusion.
"Liggins draws together the different strands in her account of the female ghost story, providing an exceptional introduction to this often over-looked and under researched genre. This book will be of interest to scholars of women's writing, ghost stories, and nineteenth-century fiction, as well as the general reader. It is an excellent companion to two recently reprinted short-story collections introduced by Liggins: Twilight Stories (1879) by Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Riddell's Weird Stories (1882)." (Kathleen Beal, BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 22 (2), 2022)
"This well-written book is a much needed re-examination of female ghost story writers and their representations ... . Emma Liggins's book sheds light onto an often-overlooked area of work, appealing to both expert and neophyte researchers in the field of the Female Gothic ghost story." (Richard Jorge Fernández, English Studies, September 27, 2021)
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.07.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Gothic |
Zusatzinfo | XIII, 307 p. 1 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 427 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Schlagworte | domesticity • Female Gothic • Ghosts • Gothic fiction • haunting • space |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-40754-3 / 3030407543 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-40754-4 / 9783030407544 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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