Overview
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. Haunted house narratives by Charlotte Riddell and Margaret Oliphant become troubled by uncanny reminders of the origins of middle-class wealth in domestic and foreign exploitation. Corpse-like revenants are deployed in Female Gothic tales by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Edith Nesbit to interrogate masculine aestheticisation of female death. In the culturally-hybrid supernaturalism of Alice Perrin, the ‘Marriage Question’ migrates to colonial India, and psychoanalytically-informed stories by May Sinclair, Eleanor Scott and Violet Hunt explore just how far gender relations have really progressed in the post-First World War period. Study of the woman’s short story productively problematises literary histories about the “golden age” of the ghost story, and about the transition from Victorianism to modernism.
Full Product Details
Author: Victoria Margree
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9783030271442
ISBN 10: 3030271447
Pages: 203
Publication Date: 19 November 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
“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)
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)
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)
Author Information
Victoria Margree is Principal Lecturer in the Humanities, and Academic Programme Leader for the Humanities Programme at the University of Brighton, UK.
