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Title The female fantastic : gendering the supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s / edited by Elizabeth McCormick, Jennifer Mitchell, and Rebecca Soares
Published New York : Routledge, 2018

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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
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
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
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Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism
Gender identity in literature.
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Gender identity in literature
Feminism and literature
Fantasy fiction, English
English literature -- Women authors
English literature
Fantasy fiction -- Women authors
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author McCormick, Elizabeth (Lizzie Harris), editor.
Mitchell, Jennifer, 1982- editor.
Soares, Rebecca, editor
LC no. 2018058947
ISBN 9781351107792
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