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Female Gothic Histories

Gender, Histories and the Gothic

Author(s) Diana Wallace

Hardback - £75.00

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Studies, Gothic and Horror, Gender Studies

Series: Gothic Literary Studies

March 2013 · 272 pages ·216x138mm

· Hardback - 9780708325742
· eBook - pdf - 9780708325759
· eBook - epub - 9781783160310

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Contents
About the Author(s)

Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic is an innovative new study of the ways in which women writers have used Gothic historical fiction to symbolise and counter their exclusion from traditional historical narratives.

1 Introduction 2. The Murder of the Mother: Sophia Lee's The Recess (1783-5) Coda: The daughter's story: Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic 3. Be-witched and Ghosted: Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic historical tales 4. Puzzling over the Past: Vernon Lee's fantastic stories 5. Displacing the Past: Daphne du Maurier and the modern Gothic 6. Queer as History: Sarah Water's Gothic historical novels Afterword

Author(s): Diana Wallace

Diana Wallace is Professor of English Literature at the University of South Wales. She is the author of Female Gothic Histories (2013), The Woman's Historical Novel (2005) and Sisters and Rivals in British Women's Fiction, 1914–39 (2000).