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

by Melissa Edmundson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030083241
• ISBN13: 9783030083243
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"