ISBN:
9783030407520
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (314 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Gothic
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Liggins, Emma The haunted house in women's ghost stories
DDC:
823.08733099287
Keywords:
Ghost stories, English
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Electronic books
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Englisch
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Frauenliteratur
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Gespenstergeschichte
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Haus
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Spuk
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Geschichte 1850-1945
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Women in the Haunted House -- Women Writers, the Ghost Story and Female Gothic -- Domestic Space and the Architectural Uncanny -- The Haunted House and Modernity -- Bibliography -- 2 The Old Ancestral Mansion and Forbidden Spaces in Elizabeth Gaskell's ghost stories -- The Reverence for Old Architecture and Victorian Haunted Space -- Open and Locked Doors: Servants and Forbidden Spaces in "The Old Nurse's Story" and "The Grey Woman" -- The Ancestral House and Servant Space in "The Poor Clare" and "The Crooked Branch" -- Bibliography -- 3 Left Out in the Cold: Exclusion and Communications with the Female Ancestor in the ghost stories of Margaret Oliphant -- Strangers in the Drawing-Room: The Horrors of Visiting -- The Haunted Garden: "Earthbound" and "The Lady's Walk" -- Ghostly Communication and Female Inheritance: "Old Lady Mary" -- Between the Drawing-Room and the Father's Library: "The Portrait" and "The Library Window" -- Bibliography -- 4 The Rapture of Old Houses: Dust, Decay and Sacred Space in Vernon Lee's Italian ghost stories -- Spectres and "Definite Places": Museums, Crypts and the Sacred -- Gothic Italy and the Allure of the Church -- Italy as a Haunted Museum: The Lumber-Room of the Past -- The Exquisite Creepiness of Old Houses: Where Devious Routes Lead in "The Legend of Madame Krasinska" and "The Doll" -- Bibliography -- 5 "Ghosts Went Out When Electricity Came in": Technology and Mistress-Servant Intimacy in the ghost stories of Edith Wharton -- Modernist Domestic Interiors, Privacy and The Decoration of Houses -- Between the Italian Garden and the Crypt: "The Duchess at Prayer" -- Letters, Electricity and Household Hierarchies in "Pomegranate Seed" and "Afterward" -- Ghostly Machinery: Telephones and Servants' Bells -- Bibliography.
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