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- Makes an original contribution to ghost story scholarship by arguing for an intersectional approach to women’s supernatural short fiction of the late-Victorian period and early twentieth century
- Argues for caution in relation to a scholarly tendency to read women’s ghost fiction for subversive meanings, emphasising the equivocal or even conservative messages that such texts also often endorse
- Expands the canon of ghost story writers and women writers
- Draws upon a range of theoretical perspectives including New Economic Criticism, postcolonial theory and psychoanalytic theory
- Reads the short supernatural story in relation to contexts including the women’s movement, the Marriage Question, economic crises, Britain’s changing class structure, colonialism and ideas about ‘race’, aesthetic movements, and the First World War
- Contributes to the current resurgence of scholarship on short fiction and short fiction theory, and to the ever-expanding fields of study of Gothic and Victorian supernaturalism
- Contributes to recent scholarship that seeks to identify previously obscured connections between Victorian literary culture and twentieth century modernism
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“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)
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
Victoria Margree
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930
Book Subtitle: Our Own Ghostliness
Authors: Victoria Margree
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27142-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27141-1Published: 19 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27144-2Published: 19 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27142-8Published: 08 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 203
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gothic Fiction, Gothic Studies