Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Makala, Melissa Edmunson.

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (256 pages) - Gothic Literary Studies .

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Female Revenants and the Beginnings of Women's Ghost Literature; Ghostly Lovers and Transgressive Supernatural Sexualities; 'Uncomfortable Houses' and the Spectres of Capital; Haunted Empire: Spectral Uprisings as Imperialist Critique; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism.



9780708325650


Women and literature--Great Britain.


Electronic Books.

PR115 / .W664 2013