Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930 Haunted Empire /
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| Zusammenfassung: | X, 258 p. text |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Palgrave Gothic,
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| Online-Zugang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76917-2 |
| Format: | Elektronisch Buch |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Introduction: Reclaiming Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing
- 2. Susanna Moodie, Colonial Exiles, and the Frontier Canadian Gothic
- 3. Gothic Romance and Retribution in the Short Fiction of Isabella Valancy Crawford
- 4. Generations of the Female Vampire: Colonial Gothic Hybridity in Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire
- 5. Mary Kingsley and the Ghosts of West Africa
- 6. The African Stories of Margery Lawrence
- 7. Colonial Gothic Framework: Haunted Houses in the Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories of Bithia Mary Croker
- 8. Animal Gothic in Alice Perrin’s East of Suez
- 9. The Past Will Not Stay Buried: Female Bodies and Colonial Crime in the Australian Ghost Stories of Mary Fortune
- 10. Fear and Loathing in the Outback: Barbara Baynton’s Bush Studies
- 11. Katherine Mansfield and the Troubled Homes of Colonial New Zealand
- 12. Conclusion: "cicatrice of an old wound".