Scottish women's gothic and fantastic writing : fiction since 1978

Scottish women's gothic and fantastic writing : fiction since 1978 /

Monica Germana considers four thematic areas of the supernatural -- quests, dangerous women, doubles and ghosts -- each explored in one of the four main chapters. Being the first critical work to bring together contemporary women's writing and the Scottish fantasy tradition, the volume pioneers...

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Main Author: Germanà, Monica (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
1900-1999
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > Scottish authors > History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > Scotland > History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, English > Scotland > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English fiction
English fiction > Scottish authors
English fiction > Women authors
Fantasy fiction, English
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Fictie.
Gothic novel.
Scotland
Schotland.
Electronic books.
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:
  • Meet the others : an introduction to nation, gender and genre
  • Quests and other worlds
  • Witches, demon lovers and female monsters
  • Doubles : bodily duplications and schizoid selves
  • Ghosts : dissolving the boundaries
  • The death of the other?
  • Appendix. Genealogies in Sian Hayton's trilogy.

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