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The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity 1850–1945 1st edition by Emma Liggins ISBN 3030407527 9783030407520

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Author(s): Emma Liggins

ISBN(s): 9783030407513, 9783030407520, 3030407519, 3030407527

Edition: 1st ed.

File Details: PDF, 5.31 MB

Year: 2020

Language: English

SKU: EB-22448380 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences, Society Tag: Emma Liggins

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ISBN 10: 3030407527
ISBN 13: 978-3030407520
Author: Emma Liggins

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.