| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) |
| Contents |
Meet the others : an introduction to nation, gender and genre -- Quests and other worlds -- Witches, demon lovers and female monsters -- Doubles : bodily duplications and schizoid selves -- Ghosts : dissolving the boundaries -- The death of the other? -- Appendix. Genealogies in Sian Hayton's trilogy |
| Summary |
Monica Germana considers four thematic areas of the supernatural -- quests, dangerous women, doubles and ghosts -- each explored in one of the four main chapters. Being the first critical work to bring together contemporary women's writing and the Scottish fantasy tradition, the volume pioneers in-depth investigation of some previously neglected texts such as Ali Smith's Hotel World; Alice Thompson's Justine; Margaret Elphinstone's longer fiction, as well as offering new readings of more popular texts including A.L. Kennedy's So I am glad, Emma Tennant's The Bad Sister and Two Women of London. Underlying the broad scope of this survey are the links -- both explicit and implicit -- established between the examined texts and the Scottish supernatural tradition. Having established a connection with a distinctively Scottish canon, Monica Germana points to the ways in which the selected texts simultaneously break from past traditions and reveal points of departure through their exploration of otherness as well as their engagement with feminist and postmodernist discourses in relation to the questions of identity and the interrogation of the real |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- Scotland -- History and criticism
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Fantasy fiction, English -- Scotland -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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English fiction
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English fiction -- Scottish authors
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English fiction -- Women authors
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Fantasy fiction, English
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Fictie.
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Gothic novel.
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Scotland
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Schotland.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010467759 |
| ISBN |
9780748637652 |
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0748637656 |
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9781282899766 |
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1282899767 |
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