LEADER 03808nam 22006135 450 001 9910300008603321 005 20250718222319.0 010 $a9783319769172 010 $a3319769170 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-76917-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000004243751 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-76917-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5398739 035 $a(Perlego)3482685 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004243751 100 $a20180519d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930 $eHaunted Empire /$fby Melissa Edmundson 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (X, 258 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Gothic,$x2634-6222 311 08$a9783319769165 311 08$a3319769162 320 $aIncludes bibliographical referencesa nd index. 327 $a1. 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". 330 $aThis book explores women writers' involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on women's experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book investigates how women writers appropriated the Gothic genre-and its emphasis on fear, isolation, troubled identity, racial otherness, and sexual deviancy-in order to take these anxieties into the farthest realms of the British Empire. The chapters show how Gothic themes told from a woman's perspective emerge in unique ways when set in the different colonial regions that comprise the scope of this book: Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Edmundson argues that women's Colonial Gothic writing tends to be more critical of imperialism, and thereby more subversive, than that of their male counterparts. This book will be of interest to students and academics interested in women's writing, the Gothic, and colonial studies. . 410 0$aPalgrave Gothic,$x2634-6222 606 $aSex 606 $aImperialism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y18th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aGender Studies. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 676 $a823.0872909 700 $aEdmundson$b Melissa$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0951030 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300008603321 996 $aWomen?s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930$92150048 997 $aUNINA