The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-1945
(Part of the Palgrave Gothic Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:3030407543
ISBN13:9783030407544
Release Date:July 2021
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:307 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"
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