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  • The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories

    Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850–1945

    de Emma Liggins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the gendering of the supernatural in terms of unease, denial, disorientation, confinement and claustrophobia within domestic space. Drawing on spatial theory by Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre and Elizabeth Grosz, it analyses the reoccupation ... Leer más

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  • Single Lives

    Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film

    Single Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center around which social anxieties and excitement coalesced. Moving between the family home and domestic independence, between household ... Leer más

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  • Odd women?

    Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s–1930s

    de Emma Liggins ...
    This genealogy of the 'odd woman' compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s.Women outside heterosexual marriage in this period were seen as abnormal, superfluous, incomplete and threatening, yet were also hailed as ‘women of the future’. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters in British ... Leer más

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  • George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture

    de Emma Liggins ...
    George Gissing's work reflects his observations of fin-de-siècle London life. Influenced by the French naturalist school, his realist representations of urban culture testify to the significance of the city for the development of new class and gender identities, particularly for women. Liggins's study, which considers standard texts such as The Odd Women, New Grub Street, and The Nether World as ... Leer más

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  • Women's Writing of the First World War

    Edición de Emma Liggins, Elizabeth Nolan ...
    Series series Historical Women's Writing
    The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both on the home front and on the edges of danger zones in Europe and beyond. The centenary of the conflict is an appropriate moment to reassess what we choose to remember about women’s roles and responsibilities in this period and how women recorded their ... Leer más

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