The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories : Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850–1945 / / by Emma Liggins |
Autore | Liggins Emma |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages) |
Disciplina |
823.912
301 |
Collana | Palgrave Gothic |
Soggetto topico |
Culture
Gender Gothic fiction (Literary genre) Culture and Gender Gothic Fiction |
ISBN | 3-030-40752-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Chapter 1: Elizabeth Gaskell: Old Nurses, Illegitimacy and the Ancestral Rural Home -- Chapter 2: Margaret Oliphant: Disinheritance, Scottish properties and the haunted garden -- Chapter 3: Vernon Lee: The Rapture of Old Houses and Decadent Italy -- Chapter 4: The Horrors of Suburbia in the Ghost Stories of E. Nesbit -- Chapter 5: ‘Ghosts went out when Electricity Came In’: Technology and the Domestic Interior in Edith Wharton’s Ghost Stories -- Chapter 5: May Sinclair: Patriarchal Space and Haunted Libraries -- Chapter 7: Elizabeth Bowen: From the Suburban Villa to Bomb-Damaged London -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484892403321 |
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Odd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s |
Autore | Liggins Emma |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 810/820 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - History and criticism - 19th century
English fiction - History and criticism - 20th century English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism Women in literature Single women in literature Widows in literature Lesbians in literature English Languages & Literatures English Literature |
ISBN | 1-78170-685-9 |
Classificazione |
HG 431
HL 2045 HL 2865 HM 4815 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Female redundancy, widowhood and the mid-Victorian heroine -- Bachelor girls, mistresses and the New Woman heroine -- Spinster heroines, aunts and widowed mothers, 1910-39 -- The misfit lesbian heroine of inter-war fiction -- Professional spinsters, older women and widowed heroines in the 1930s. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154309603321 |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 | ||
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