Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author(s) Melissa Makala
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
- February 2013 · 256 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9780708325643
- · eBook - pdf - 9780708325650
- · eBook - epub - 9780708326978
About The Book
Endorsements
"This groundbreaking study makes a persuasive case that nineteenth century women authors wrote ghosts into their fiction and poetry not just to entertain but as a vehicle for social criticism. Through the figure of the ghost, they drew attention to religious, gender and class-based inequality within British society and to the human costs of empire and the industrial revolution." Professor Paula Feldman, University of South Carolina
Contents
Introduction 1 Female Revenants and the Beginnings of Women's Ghost Literature 2 Ghostly Lovers and Transgressive Supernatural Sexualities 3 'Uncomfortable Houses' and the Spectres of Capital 4 Haunted Empire: Spectral Uprisings as Imperialist Critique Conclusion