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

• Autore: Germanà Monica
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823.08729099287
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Scottish Women's Gothic & Fantastic Writing
• Titolo autorizzato: Scottish women's gothic and fantastic writing
• ISBN: 0-7486-5225-6; 1-282-89976-7; 9786612899768; 0-7486-3765-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458764703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II