Women's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire

byMelissa Edmundson

June 4, 2018|
Women's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire by Melissa Edmundson
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This 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.      
Melissa Edmundson is Lecturer of English at Clemson University and specializes in 19th- and 20th- century British women writers, ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction. She is the author ofWomen''s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain(2013). 
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Title:Women's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire
Format:Hardcover
Product dimensions:258 pages, 8.27 X 5.83 X 0 in
Shipping dimensions:258 pages, 8.27 X 5.83 X 0 in
Published:June 4, 2018
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9783319769165

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