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Author:   Gina Wisker
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.503kg
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9783030890537

ISBN 10:   3030890538
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   03 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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1. Introduction: Lifting the veil on women’s ghost stories.Section 1: Haunted texts, haunted houses, haunted lives.2. Haunted romance and haunted houses: Rebecca (du Maurier, 1938), The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson, 1959).3. Revengeful ghosts: The Woman in Black (Hill, 1983), Beloved (Morrison, 1987).Section 2: Possession.4. True love as possession: Ashputtle (Carter, 1987), Lady Oracle (Atwood, 1976), The Greatcoat (Dunmore, 2012), The Glass Bottle Trick (Hopkinson, 2000).5. The Spectral voice: In The Red Kitchen (Roberts, 1990), Affinity (Waters, 1999), Beyond Black (Mantel, 2005).6. Domestic hauntings: The Little Stranger (Waters, 2009), Birdcage Walk (Dunmore, 2017), The Stopped Heart (Myerson, 2016)Section  3: Traumas of  Place: Postcolonial Hauntings.7. Postcolonial hauntings and urban Gothic in Singapore and Malaysia: The Serpent’s Tooth (Lim, 1982), The Bondmaid (Lim, 1992), Haunting (Lim, 1981), The Black Isle (Tan, 2012), Ponti (Teo, 2018), House of Aunts (Cho, 2014), The Crocodile Fury (Yahp, 1992).8. Traumas of place, travel, hauntology: Novel without a Name (Duong, 1995), Daughters of the House (Roberts, 1992), The Winter Ghosts (Mosse, 2010).9. Visits and visitations:  A Visit (Jackson, 1950), Ghost Summer (Due, 2015), Her Fearful Symmetry (Niffenegger, 2009), Hotel World (Smith, 2001).10. Conclusion: Breaking boundaries, leaking truths, pressing issues: Ghost Wall (Moss, 2018).

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Gina Wisker is an Associate Professor at the University of Bath, and Professor Emeritus of Higher Education & Contemporary Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. Gina has published twenty-six books and over one hundred and forty articles, including Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature (2007); Horror Fiction: An Introduction (2005); Margaret Atwood, an Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction (2012) and Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction (2016). Gina co-edits the online dark fantasy journal Dissections (2006-), Spokes poetry magazine (1990s-) and hosts ‘words and worlds’ readings for ICFA. Gina lives in Cambridge, has two sons and a feisty poodle.   

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