British Women's Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930 Our Own Ghostliness /

• Main Author: Margree, Victoria (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Gothic fiction (Literary genre).; Goth culture (Subculture) .; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Gothic Fiction.; Gothic Studies.

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. H...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .