Description: The Haunted House in Women�s Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850�1945 (Palgrave Gothic) [hardcover] Liggins, Emma Product Overview This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the gendering of the supernatural in terms of unease, denial, disorientation, confinement and claustrophobia within domestic space. Drawing on spatial theory by Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre and Elizabeth Grosz, it analyses the reoccupation and appropriation of space by ghosts, women and servants as a means of addressing the opposition between the past and modernity. The chapters consider a range of haunted spaces, including ancestral mansions, ghostly gardens, suburban villas, Italian churches and houses subject to demolition and ruin. The ghost stories are read in the light of women’s non- fictional writing on architecture, travel, interior design, sacred space, technology, the ideal home and the servant problem. Women writers discussed include Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Vernon Lee, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair and Elizabeth Bowen. This book will appeal to students and researchers in the ghost story, Female Gothic and Victorian and modernist women’s writing, as well as general readers with an interest in the supernatural. Read more Details Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2020 edition (July 1, 2020) Language : English Hardcover : 320 pages ISBN-10 : 3030407519 ISBN-13 : 13 Item Weight : 1.1 pounds Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 8.5 inches Best Sellers Rank: #6,276,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #13,195 in General Gender Studies #13,710 in Gothic Fiction #13,195 in General Gender Studies #13,710 in Gothic Fiction Stock Photos Please Note: All of our book listings use stock photos unless otherwise stated. Please read our descriptions for accurate conditions and editions, don't use the photos! Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 3030407519
ISBN10: 3030407519
ISBN13: 9783030407513
EAN: 9783030407513
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Brand: MACMILLAN
GTIN: 09783030407513
Book Title: Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories : Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-1945
Number of Pages: Xiii, 307 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Gender Studies, General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction, Social Science
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Emma Liggins
Book Series: Palgrave Gothic Ser.
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
