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Avenging angels: The social superna...

Edmundson, Melissa.

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Avenging angels: The social supernatural in nineteenth-century British women's writing.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Avenging angels: The social supernatural in nineteenth-century British women's writing./
作者:	Edmundson, Melissa.
面頁冊數:	215 p.
附註:	Adviser: Paula Feldman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-07A.
標題:	Literature, English. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3272439
ISBN:	9780549123682

Avenging angels: The social supernatural in nineteenth-century British women's writing.
Edmundson, Melissa.

Avenging angels: The social supernatural in nineteenth-century British women's writing. - 215 p.

Adviser: Paula Feldman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Carolina, 2007.

Throughout the nineteenth century, women writers produced some of the most memorable ghost stories and supernatural tales in British literature. They published in a variety of genres, from short stories to poems, and from essays to novels. While they were oftentimes termed "hack writers" because of the relatively easy commercial success many of these women found while writing in the ghost story genre, a closer look into their writings reveals works of greater significance than those simply written for financial profit. These authors used the supernatural as a means of social critique and recognizing this added dimension focuses our attention on the larger cultural issues in their works. These writers had differing social agendas. Some tended to focus on female ghosts, who are victims in life but become empowered, vengeful revenants after their deaths. Others dealt with contemporary economic, religious and gender inequalities, as they wrote about how these problems affected nineteenth-century England and dealt with such topics as religious dissent, factory conditions, and the debate over female employment. Towards the latter half of the century, women increasingly turned to a critique of British imperialism in India and Africa and sought to bring these distant troubles into British households through stories and novels. Thinking of these authors in terms of the social supernatural allows us to expand our view of both the authors, themselves, and the stories and poems which they wrote. The idea of a social element within the genre of supernatural literature provides another layer of meaning to works concerned with the presence of ghosts. For women, the idea of the social supernatural was an intriguing one because it allowed them to voice their concerns in the well-known and non-threatening form of the "ghost story." These writers used the figure of the ghost to carry their messages of social reform, or to raise awareness of problems in British society that needed to be considered or changed. Thus, the social supernatural combines an entertaining ghost story with a deeper political or social agenda.

ISBN: 9780549123682Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

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