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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Melissa Edmundson Makala

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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Melissa Edmundson Makala

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism.

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University of Wales Press

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0708325653

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9780708325650

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Melissa Edmundson Makala

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By: Melissa Edmundson Makala

Nineteenth-century ghost literature by women shows the Gothic becoming more experimental and subversive as its writers abandoned the stereotypical Gothic heroines of the past in order to create more realistic, middle-class characters (both living and dead, male and female) who rage against the limits imposed on them by the natural world. The ghosts of Female Gothic thereby become reflections of the social, sexual, economic and racial troubles of the living. Expanding the parameters of Female Gothic and moving it into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries allows us to recognise women’s ghost literature as a specific strain of the Female Gothic that began not with Ann Radcliffe, but with the Romantic Gothic ballads of women in the first decade of the nineteenth century.

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University of Wales Press

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0708326978

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Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930

Haunted Empire

By: Melissa Edmundson

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Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930

Haunted Empire

By: Melissa Edmundson

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, isolation, troubled identity, racial otherness, and sexual deviancy—in order to take these anxieties into the farthest realms of the British Empire. The chapters show how Gothic themes told from a woman’s perspective emerge in unique ways when set in the different colonial regions that comprise the scope of this book: Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Edmundson argues that women’s Colonial Gothic writing tends to be more critical of imperialism, and thereby more subversive, than that of their male counterparts. This book will be of interest to students and academics interested in women’s writing, the Gothic, and colonial studies.

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Springer

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3319769170

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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930

Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930

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