Titlebook: British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930; Our Own Ghostliness Victoria Margree Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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Book 2019First World War period. Study of the woman’s short story productively problematises literary histories about the “golden age” of the ghost story, and about the transition from Victorianism to modernism.

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Introduction: Our Own Ghostliness,es of the twentieth century. Deploying familiar tropes such as a haunted ancestral pile and a cursed aristocratic line, Everett’s story begins as an Edwardian invocation of the traditional nineteenth-century form before seguing into an elegy for the lost youth of the First World War. The ‘light-hear

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(Other)Worldly Goods: Ghost Fiction as Financial Writing in Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Riddellf each generally eschew malevolent ghosts in favour of anguished souls in need of earthly assistance, or who themselves seek to protect or otherwise benefit the living. Although their tales sometimes contain significant elements of uncanniness, the tonal emphasis falls not predominantly upon produci

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,The Good Memsahib? Marriage, Infidelity and Empire in Alice Perrin’s Anglo-Indian Tales,ng these feature many tales in which actual or possible supernatural phenomena occur. In what follows I will read Perrin’s stories as attempting to articulate a positive model of colonial femininity in which the Anglo-Indian wife is central to the success of the imperial project, but as being haunte

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Haunted Modernity in the Uncanny Stories of May Sinclair, Eleanor Scott and Violet Hunt,relationship with both its Victorian forebears and with emerging literary modernism. Julia Briggs claimed in . that the English ghost story had entered into decline in the period after 1918, with writers developing ‘inhibitions’ about addressing themselves to the ‘serious’ subjects that the nineteen

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Conclusion,rrogate their social, political and cultural conditions. The ghostliness that had so fascinated the Victorians persisted in exerting a profound influence on the imaginations of twentieth-century writers, providing a trope that could be adapted for diverse purposes. A shift in the deployment of ghost

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