Contents:
PART I : VICTIORIAN SUPERNATURAL : QUESTION(S/ING) OF GENDER? : The feminist gothic in the yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Asu Inci Serti -- Death (un) personified : pronouns, patriarchy and the child ghost / Jen Baker -- Edgar Allan Poe and the containment of feminine monstrousness / Tracy Hayes -- ' "Mysterious influences" : androgyny and transgressive sexuality in Vernon Lee's "a wicked voice" and "prince Alberic and the snake lady " ' / Bronte Schiltz -- PART II : WRITING BACK : SUPERNATURAL AS REBELLION : Exploring the uncanny in Victorian stories : (re)presenting frantic women and haunting apparitions / Soumi Bandyopadhyay -- 'From the other World I come back to you ...' : women visitant and women victims in select stories from Edith Nesbit's grim tales / Anwesha Sengupta -- PART III : REJECTING STEREOTYPES : MRS GASKELL AND THE VSUPERNATURAL : Demonising the angel : Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian supernatural fiction / Sukanya Bhadra -- A Victorian diagnosis in Lois the witch : an early retelling of the Salem Witch Hunt as Mass Hysteria / Any Lee -- A niche of one's own : the Victorian female gothic tradition and a reading of Elizabeth Gaskell's 'the poor Clare' / Chandrani Biswas -- PART IV : SUPERNATURAL AS DECEPTION OR RUSE : Arthur Conan Doyle's embodiment of gender and the supernatural in his short stories / Joyce McPherson -- The supernatural 'angle in the house' in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's ralph the bailiff / Samantha Cummings -- 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 / Oindrila Ghosh -- 'The world is not made of looking-glass' : the uncanny in 'the lifted veil' / Saswati Halder -- PART VI : THE EMPIRE AND THE SUPERNATURAL : Haunted by the empire : memsahibs writing the ghosts of 'Hindoostan' post the Indian mutiny of 1857 / Shaona Barik
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