Overview
- Explores representations of Victorian and modernist haunted houses in women’s ghost stories, 1850-1945, through the lens of spatial theory
- Uncovers the gendered dimensions of the architectural uncanny and the hauntedness of home
- Reconsiders the relations between gender, space and modernity in a transitional period
Part of the book series: Palgrave Gothic (PAGO)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“This well-written book is a much needed re-examination of female ghost story writers and their representations … . Emma Liggins’s book sheds light onto an often-overlooked area of work, appealing to both expert and neophyte researchers in the field of the Female Gothic ghost story.” (Richard Jorge Fernández, English Studies, September 27, 2021)
“Drawing on recent scholarship as well as established traditions of thinking about the ghost story, Emma Liggins’ book constitutes a very useful contribution to an emerging critical field. The argument explores ideas about space and identity, referring to thinkers like Bachelard and Irigaray, in especially interesting new ways. The book is lucid and articulate throughout and will be a useful resource for teaching.” (Dr Luke A. Thurston, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, Aberystwyth University)
“Emma Liggins takes us on a rich tour of the haunted houses and gardens of Victorian and modernist women’s writing. Bringing together female-authored short Gothic fiction and non-fiction including country house studies, art criticism and advice manuals, this carefully researched book reveals how female authors used spatial tropes to articulate their profound sense of unease about domesticity. The study’s chronological span from the mid-nineteenth century to the Second WorldWar charts the development of a shared spatial thematic in female-authored Gothic fiction while foregrounding the ruptures of modernity.” (Dr Minna Vuohelainen, City, University of London)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Emma Liggins is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has previously published Odd Women? Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women’s Fiction, 1850s-1930s (2014), as well as articles and chapters on Vernon Lee, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and modernist ghost stories.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories
Book Subtitle: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850–1945
Authors: Emma Liggins
Series Title: Palgrave Gothic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40752-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40751-3Published: 01 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40754-4Published: 01 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40752-0Published: 30 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6214
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6222
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 307
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Culture and Gender, Gothic Fiction