Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930
Haunted Empire
Authors: Edmundson, Melissa
Free Preview- Provides women’s perspectives on colonialism from across the British Empire
- Includes women’s literary responses to the British Empire
- Discusses the Gothic as a critique of imperialism and women’s Colonial Gothic as social critique
- Presents new directions in the study of both women’s Gothic writing and women’s colonial writing
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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.
- About the authors
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Melissa Edmundson is Lecturer of English at Clemson University and specializes in 19th- and 20th- century British women writers, ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction. She is the author of Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2013).
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“Melissa Edmundson’s study is an impressive volume that will probably prove influential in the field of Gothic Studies. … This volume provides an excellent foundation upon which Edmundson or other scholars might build. ... Edmundson introduces us to several strangers in strange lands on whom future scholarship might focus. This is an important step in the reclamation of marginalized voices, both academically and politically commendable.” (Eleanor Dobson, Modern Language Review, Vol. 114 (3), July, 2019)
“Edmundson’s book is a veritable treasure trove of undiscovered women’s postcolonial and Gothic work and fills an amazing gap in our understanding, which ranges round British and American, some colonial Gothic, nineteenth century work, early twentieth century and contemporary work. The scholarship and the focus are impeccable, using established and new critics’ work on gender, the Gothic and postcolonial writing to provide a new reading of a very under researched area.” (Gina Wisker, University of Brighton, UK)
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction: Reclaiming Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing
Pages 1-21
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Susanna Moodie, Colonial Exiles, and the Frontier Canadian Gothic
Pages 23-43
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Gothic Romance and Retribution in the Short Fiction of Isabella Valancy Crawford
Pages 45-72
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Generations of the Female Vampire: Colonial Gothic Hybridity in Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire
Pages 73-94
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Mary Kingsley and the Ghosts of West Africa
Pages 95-114
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930
- Book Subtitle
- Haunted Empire
- Authors
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- Melissa Edmundson
- Series Title
- Palgrave Gothic
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-76917-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-76917-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-76916-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-08324-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 258
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