Women's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930 Haunted Empire /

• Main Author: Edmundson, Melissa (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Gothic
• Subjects: Culture.; Gender.; Imperialism.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Culture and Gender.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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,...