Women's colonial Gothic writing, 1850-1930 [electronic resource] : haunted empire / 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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Series: | Palgrave gothic series.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Bibliography: | BibliographyChapter 6 The African Stories of Margery Lawrence; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Colonial Gothic Framework: Haunted Houses in the Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories of Bithia Mary Croker; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Animal Gothic in Alice Perrin's East of Suez; Bibliography; Chapter 9 The Past Will Not Stay Buried: Female Bodies and Colonial Crime in the Australian Ghost Stories of Mary Fortune; Bibliography; Chapter 10 Fear and Death in the Outback: Barbara Baynton's Bush Studies; Bibliography; Chapter 11 Katherine Mansfield and the Troubled Homes of Colonial New Zealand; Bibliography. |
| ISBN: | 9783319769172 3319769170 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |