Women's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030083243)

This book explores women writers' involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on women's experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book investigates how women writers appropriated the Gothic genre--and its emphasis on fear, isolation, troubled identity, racial otherness, and sexual deviancy--in order to take these anxieties into the farthest realms of the British Empire. The chapters show how Gothic themes told from a woman's perspective emerge in unique ways when set in the different colonial regions that comprise the scope of this book: Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Edmundson argues that women's Colonial Gothic writing tends to be more critical of imperialism, and thereby more subversive, than that of their male counterparts. This book will be of interest to students and academics interested in women's writing, the Gothic, and colonial studies.

Author: Melissa Edmundson
ISBN-10: 3030083241
ISBN-13: 9783030083243
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2019
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.57d