Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing : Fiction since 1978.
Title:
Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing : Fiction since 1978.
Author:
Germanà  , Monica.
ISBN:
9780748637652
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1 MEET THE OTHERS: AN INTRODUCTION TO NATION, GENDER AND GENRE -- Chapter 2 QUESTS AND OTHER WORLDS -- Chapter 3 WITCHES, DEMON LOVERS AND FEMALE MONSTERS -- Chapter 4 DOUBLES: BODILY DUPLICATIONS AND SCHIZOID SELVES -- Chapter 5 GHOSTS: DISSOLVING THE BOUNDARIES -- Chapter 6 THE DEATH OF THE OTHER? -- APPENDIX: GENEALOGIES IN SIAN HAYTON'S TRILOGY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
This book provides a critical survey of the gothic texts of late twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish women writers including Kate Atkinson, Ellen Galford, A.L. Kennedy, Ali Smith and Emma Tennant focusing on four themes: quests and other worlds, witches, doubles and ghosts.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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