Book Review: Emma Liggins, The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories. Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-1945 (London, Palgrave 2020)
In this interesting study, Emma Liggins investigates haunted house narratives by female writers through the prism of women’s gendered engagement with domestic space. In compelling readings of some twenty-five stories, ranging from 1850 to 1945, she shows how the house is turned into a source of ter...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2022
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | In this interesting study, Emma Liggins investigates haunted house narratives by female writers through the prism of women’s gendered engagement with domestic space. In compelling readings of some twenty-five stories, ranging from 1850 to 1945, she shows how the house is turned into a source of terror or threat to women; how the home becomes unhomely. The haunted drawing rooms, bedrooms, gardens and libraries that dominate these stories are shown to be examples of an architectural uncanny wh... |
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