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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Edmundson, Melissa (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Gothic
• Θέματα: 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,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Reclaiming Women's Colonial Gothic Writing
• 2. Susanna Moodie, Colonial Exiles, and the Frontier Canadian Gothic
• 3. Gothic Romance and Retribution in the Short Fiction of Isabella Valancy Crawford
• 4. Generations of the Female Vampire: Colonial Gothic Hybridity in Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire
• 5. Mary Kingsley and the Ghosts of West Africa
• 6. The African Stories of Margery Lawrence
• 7. Colonial Gothic Framework: Haunted Houses in the Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories of Bithia Mary Croker
• 8. Animal Gothic in Alice Perrin's East of Suez
• 9. The Past Will Not Stay Buried: Female Bodies and Colonial Crime in the Australian Ghost Stories of Mary Fortune
• 10. Fear and Loathing in the Outback: Barbara Baynton's Bush Studies
• 11. Katherine Mansfield and the Troubled Homes of Colonial New Zealand
• 12. Conclusion: "cicatrice of an old wound".