Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction: Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses

by Gina Wisker

Book Overview

This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women's Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349671681
• ISBN13: 9781349671687
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 8.2"