The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-1945

by Emma Liggins

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030407543
• ISBN13: 9783030407544
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"