Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing: Fiction Since 1978

by Monica Germanà

Book Overview

Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing considers four thematic areas of the supernatural - quests, dangerous women, doubles and ghosts - each explored in one of the four main chapters. Being the first critical work to bring together contemporary women's writing and the Scottish fantasy tradition, the volume pioneers in-depth investigation of some previously neglected texts such as Ali Smith's Hotel World; Alice Thompson's Justine; Margaret...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748686339
• ISBN13: 9780748686339
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher