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Women's ghost literature in nineteenth-century Britain / Melissa Edmundson Makala.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmundson, Melissa.
- Series:
- Gothic literary studies.
- Gothic literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghost stories, English--History and criticism.
- Ghost stories, English.
- English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; Female Revenants and the Beginnings of Women's Ghost Literature; Ghostly Lovers and Transgressive Supernatural Sexualities; 'Uncomfortable Houses' and the Spectres of Capital; Haunted Empire: Spectral Uprisings as Imperialist Critique; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 10, 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7083-2565-3
- 1-299-20156-3
- OCLC:
- 828793006
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