Female Gothic Histories
Gender, Histories and the Gothic
Author(s) Diana Wallace
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
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