Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930 Haunted Empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Edmundson, Melissa (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	X, 258 p. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Series:	Palgrave Gothic,
Subjects:	Sex. Imperialism. Literature, Modern > 18th century. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Gender Studies. Imperialism and Colonialism. Eighteenth-Century Literature. Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76917-2
Format:	Electronic eBook

Table of Contents:

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".

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