Vision, contestation and deception interrogating gender and the supernatural in Victorian shorter fiction
Vision, contestation and deception interrogating gender and the supernatural in Victorian shorter fiction
edited by Oindrila Ghosh
- Kolkata Avenel Press 2021
- 312p. ; 21.5 cm.
Introduction -- PART I : VICTIORIAN SUPERNATURAL : QUESTION(S/ING) OF GENDER? : The feminist gothic in the yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Death (un) personified : pronouns, patriarchy and the child ghost / Edgar Allan Poe and the containment of feminine monstrousness / ' "Mysterious influences" : androgyny and transgressive sexuality in Vernon Lee's "a wicked voice" and "prince Alberic and the snake lady " ' / PART II : WRITING BACK : SUPERNATURAL AS REBELLION : Exploring the uncanny in Victorian stories : (re)presenting frantic women and haunting apparitions / 'From the other World I come back to you ...' : women visitant and women victims in select stories from Edith Nesbit's grim tales / PART III : REJECTING STEREOTYPES : MRS GASKELL AND THE VSUPERNATURAL : Demonising the angel : Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian supernatural fiction / A Victorian diagnosis in Lois the witch : an early retelling of the Salem Witch Hunt as Mass Hysteria / A niche of one's own : the Victorian female gothic tradition and a reading of Elizabeth Gaskell's 'the poor Clare' / PART IV : SUPERNATURAL AS DECEPTION OR RUSE : Arthur Conan Doyle's embodiment of gender and the supernatural in his short stories / The supernatural 'angle in the house' in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's ralph the bailiff / PART V : BLURRED BOUNDARIES : VECTORIAN SCIENCE VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL : 'No incident ... too trifling, no belief too obscure to record' : interplay of science and the supernatural in Thomas Hardy's shorter fiction / 'The world is not made of looking-glass' : the uncanny in 'the lifted veil' / PART VI : THE EMPIRE AND THE SUPERNATURAL : Haunted by the empire : memsahibs writing the ghosts of 'Hindoostan' post the Indian mutiny of 1857 / Asu Inci Serti -- Jen Baker -- Tracy Hayes -- Bronte Schiltz -- Soumi Bandyopadhyay -- Anwesha Sengupta -- Sukanya Bhadra -- Any Lee -- Chandrani Biswas -- Joyce McPherson -- Samantha Cummings -- Oindrila Ghosh -- Saswati Halder -- Shaona Barik
9789390873272 Rs.550.00
English literature--Fiction--Critical appraisal--Victorian period
English
Criticism
823.809 / GHV
Introduction -- PART I : VICTIORIAN SUPERNATURAL : QUESTION(S/ING) OF GENDER? : The feminist gothic in the yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Death (un) personified : pronouns, patriarchy and the child ghost / Edgar Allan Poe and the containment of feminine monstrousness / ' "Mysterious influences" : androgyny and transgressive sexuality in Vernon Lee's "a wicked voice" and "prince Alberic and the snake lady " ' / PART II : WRITING BACK : SUPERNATURAL AS REBELLION : Exploring the uncanny in Victorian stories : (re)presenting frantic women and haunting apparitions / 'From the other World I come back to you ...' : women visitant and women victims in select stories from Edith Nesbit's grim tales / PART III : REJECTING STEREOTYPES : MRS GASKELL AND THE VSUPERNATURAL : Demonising the angel : Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian supernatural fiction / A Victorian diagnosis in Lois the witch : an early retelling of the Salem Witch Hunt as Mass Hysteria / A niche of one's own : the Victorian female gothic tradition and a reading of Elizabeth Gaskell's 'the poor Clare' / PART IV : SUPERNATURAL AS DECEPTION OR RUSE : Arthur Conan Doyle's embodiment of gender and the supernatural in his short stories / The supernatural 'angle in the house' in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's ralph the bailiff / PART V : BLURRED BOUNDARIES : VECTORIAN SCIENCE VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL : 'No incident ... too trifling, no belief too obscure to record' : interplay of science and the supernatural in Thomas Hardy's shorter fiction / 'The world is not made of looking-glass' : the uncanny in 'the lifted veil' / PART VI : THE EMPIRE AND THE SUPERNATURAL : Haunted by the empire : memsahibs writing the ghosts of 'Hindoostan' post the Indian mutiny of 1857 / Asu Inci Serti -- Jen Baker -- Tracy Hayes -- Bronte Schiltz -- Soumi Bandyopadhyay -- Anwesha Sengupta -- Sukanya Bhadra -- Any Lee -- Chandrani Biswas -- Joyce McPherson -- Samantha Cummings -- Oindrila Ghosh -- Saswati Halder -- Shaona Barik
9789390873272 Rs.550.00
English literature--Fiction--Critical appraisal--Victorian period
English
Criticism
823.809 / GHV