Title The haunted house in women's ghost stories : gender, space and modernity, 1850-1945 / Emma Liggins

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages) Series Palgrave gothic Palgrave gothic series. Contents Introduction -- Chapter 1: Elizabeth Gaskell: Old Nurses, Illegitimacy and the Ancestral Rural Home -- Chapter 2: Margaret Oliphant: Disinheritance, Scottish properties and the haunted garden -- Chapter 3: Vernon Lee: The Rapture of Old Houses and Decadent Italy -- Chapter 4: The Horrors of Suburbia in the Ghost Stories of E. Nesbit -- Chapter 5: 'Ghosts went out when Electricity Came In': Technology and the Domestic Interior in Edith Wharton's Ghost Stories -- Chapter 5: May Sinclair: Patriarchal Space and Haunted Libraries -- Chapter 7: Elizabeth Bowen: From the Suburban Villa to Bomb-Damaged London -- Conclusion Summary 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 as a means of addressing the opposition between the past and modernity. The chapters consider a range of haunted spaces, including ancestral mansions, ghostly gardens, suburban villas, Italian churches and houses subject to demolition and ruin. The ghost stories are read in the light of women's non-fictional writing on architecture, travel, interior design, sacred space, technology, the ideal home and the servant problem. Women writers discussed include Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Vernon Lee, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair and Elizabeth Bowen. This book will appeal to students and researchers in the ghost story, Female Gothic and Victorian and modernist women's writing, as well as general readers with an interest in the supernatural Notes Introduction.- Chapter 1: Elizabeth Gaskell: Old Nurses, Illegitimacy and the Ancestral Rural Home.- Chapter 2: Margaret Oliphant: Disinheritance, Scottish properties and the haunted garden.- Chapter 3: Vernon Lee: The Rapture of Old Houses and Decadent Italy.- Chapter 4: The Horrors of Suburbia in the Ghost Stories of E. Nesbit.- Chapter 5: 'Ghosts went out when Electricity Came In': Technology and the Domestic Interior in Edith Wharton's Ghost Stories.- Chapter 5: May Sinclair: Patriarchal Space and Haunted Libraries.- Chapter 7: Elizabeth Bowen: From the Suburban Villa to Bomb-Damaged London.- Conclusion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 22, 2020) Subject Haunted houses in literature. Ghost stories, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism Ghost stories, English -- 20th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- Women authors -- 19th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism English fiction English fiction -- Women authors Ghost stories, English Haunted houses in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030407520 3030407527

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