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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154587503321

Autore

Raymond Claire <1967-, >

Titolo

The posthumous voice in women's writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath / / Claire Raymond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-88366-6

1-315-23764-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 pages)

Disciplina

820.9/9287

Soggetti

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - England - History

American poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - United States - History

Death in literature

Feminism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2006 by Ashgate.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Spectral gardens : pastoral tradition and feminine self-elegy -- 2. Lethe's shore : Mary Shelley's sacred horror -- 3. Eating eternally deeper : the posthumous voice in Wuthering heights -- 4. Emily Dickinson as the unnamed, buried child -- 5. Rossetti's late suitors : the death lyrics and the speaking body -- 6. Hooks and ladders : Sylvia Plath's "the rabbit catcher".