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Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein; but
have you heard of Margaret Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction
epic 150 years earlier? Have you read the psychological hauntings
of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic
relationships with women in the Victorian era? Or the stories of
Gertrude Barrows Bennett, whose writing influenced H.P. Lovecraft?
Monster, She Wrote shares the stories of women past and present who
invented horror, speculative, and weird fiction and made it great.
You ll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V.C. Andrews),
forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Coltor, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today s
vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). And each profile includes a curated
reading list so you can seek out the spine-chilling tales that
interest you the most.
The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral
Identities is a collection of essays expanding the concepts of
"ghost" and "haunting" beyond literary tools used to add
supernatural flavor to include questions of identity, visibility,
memory and trauma, and history. Using a wide scope of texts from
varying time periods and cultures, including fiction and film, this
collection explores the phenomenon of social ghosts. What does it
mean, for example, to be invisible, to be a ghost, particularly
when that ghost is representative of a person or group living on
the margins of society? Why do specific types of ghosts tend to
haunt certain cultures and/or places? What is it about a people's
history that invites these types of hauntings? The essays in this
book, like pieces of a puzzle, approach the larger questions from
diverse individual perspectives, but, taken together, they offer a
richly detailed composite discussion of what it means to be
haunted.
The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral
Identities is a collection of essays aimed at expanding the
concepts of ghost and haunting beyond literary tools used to add
supernatural flavor to include questions of identity, visibility,
memory and trauma, and history. Using a wide scope of texts from
varying time periods and cultures, including fiction and film, this
collection explores the phenomenon of social ghosts. What does it
mean, for example, to be invisible, to be a ghost, particularly
when that ghost is representative of a person or group living on
the margins of society? Why do specific types of ghosts tend to
haunt certain cultures and/or places? What is it about a people's
history that invites these types of hauntings? The essays in this
book, like pieces of a puzzle, approach the larger questions from
diverse individual perspectives, but, taken together, they offer a
richly detailed composite discussion of what it means to be
haunted.
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