Description |
1 online resource (xliv, 246 pages) |
Series |
Among the Victorians and Modernists ; 11 |
Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Toward a Female Fantastic; List of Contributors; SECTION I: Heaps, Rubbish, Treasure, Litter, Tatters: Fantastic Objects in Context; 1 Framing the Fin-de-Siècle Female Narrative: Ghostly Portraits of the Emerging New Woman; 2 Monstrous Femininity and Objectified Masculinity in Daphne du Maurier's "The Doll"; 3 Uncanny Mediums: Haunted Radio, Feminine Intuition, and Agatha Christie's "Wireless"; 4 Buyer Beware: Haunted Objects in the Supernatural Tales of Margery Lawrence |
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SECTION II: Profoundly and Irresolvably Political: Fantastic Spaces5 Female Desire, Colonial Ireland, and the "limits of the possible" in E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross's The Silver Fox; 6 The Haunting House in Elizabeth Bowen's "The Shadowy Third"; 7 Obscene, Grotesque, and Carnivalesque: Hope Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist as Menippean Satire; SECTION III: The Fantastic and the Modern Female Experience: Fantastic People; 8 Marie Corelli's Ziska and Fantastic Feminism; 9 The Fantastic and the Woman Question in Edith Nesbit's Male Gothic Stories |
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10 Fantastic Transformations: Queer Desires and "Uncanny Time" in Work by Radclyffe Hall and Virginia Woolf11 "To find my real friends I have to travel a long way": Queer Time Travel in Katharine Burdekin's Speculative Fiction; SECTION IV: Invitation to Dissidence: Fantastic Creatures; 12 Rewriting the Romantic Satan: The Sorrows and Cynicism of Marie Corelli; 13 Beauty is the Beast: Shapeshifting, Suffrage, and Sexuality in Clemence Housman's The Were-wolf and Aino Kallas's The Wolf's Bride |
Summary |
"This volume contains essays from international scholars covering a wide range of topics, including werewolves, mummies, fairies, devils, time travel, ghosts, haunted spaces and objects, race, gender, queerness, monstrosity, madness, incest, empire, medicine, and science"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Gender identity in literature.
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Gender identity in literature
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Feminism and literature
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Fantasy fiction, English
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English literature -- Women authors
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English literature
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Fantasy fiction -- Women authors
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
McCormick, Elizabeth (Lizzie Harris), editor.
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Mitchell, Jennifer, 1982- editor.
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Soares, Rebecca, editor
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LC no. |
2018058947 |
ISBN |
9781351107792 |
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1351107798 |
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9781351107785 |
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135110778X |
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9781351107778 |
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1351107771 |
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9781351107761 |
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1351107763 |
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