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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785372603321

Autore

Germanà Monica

Titolo

Scottish women's gothic and fantastic writing : fiction since 1978 / / Monica Germanà [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-7486-5225-6

1-282-89976-7

9786612899768

0-7486-3765-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

18.05

Disciplina

823.08729099287

Soggetti

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

English fiction - Scottish authors - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English - Scotland - History and criticism

Fantasy fiction, English - Scotland - History and criticism

Schotland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Meet the others : an introduction to nation, gender and genre -- Quests and other worlds -- Witches, demon lovers and female monsters -- Doubles : bodily duplications and schizoid selves -- Ghosts : dissolving the boundaries -- The death of the other? -- Genealogies in Sian Hayton's trilogy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a critical survey of the gothic texts of late twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish women writers including Kate Atkinson  Ellen Galford  A.L. Kennedy  Ali Smith and Emma Tennant focusing on four themes: quests and other worlds  witches  doubles and ghosts.