The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories : Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-1945 / / by Emma Liggins
| 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 |
Sex
Fiction Gender Studies Fiction Literature |
| ISBN |
9783030407520
3030407527 |
| 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 |
Liggins Emma
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Odd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s
| Odd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s |
| Autore | Liggins Emma |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 810/820 |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism 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 |
Liggins Emma
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| Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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