Overview
- Provides women’s perspectives on colonialism from across the British Empire
- Includes women’s literary responses to the British Empire
- Discusses the Gothic as a critique of imperialism and women’s Colonial Gothic as social critique
- Presents new directions in the study of both women’s Gothic writing and women’s colonial writing
Part of the book series: Palgrave Gothic (PAGO)
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About the author
Melissa Edmundson is Lecturer of English at Clemson University and specializes in 19th- and 20th- century British women writers, ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction. She is the author of Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930
Book Subtitle: Haunted Empire
Authors: Melissa Edmundson
Series Title: Palgrave Gothic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76917-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76916-5Published: 04 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08324-3Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76917-2Published: 19 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6214
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6222
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 258
Topics: Culture and Gender, Culture and Gender, Imperialism and Colonialism, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature