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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Contemporary Women's Ghost Stories -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Lifting the Veil on Women's Ghost Stories -- Undead: Critical Background -- Ghosts at the Turn of the Century and Women's Modernist Writing -- Structure -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Part I: Haunted Texts, Haunted Houses, Haunted Lives -- Chapter 2: Haunted Romance and Haunted Houses: Rebecca (du Maurier, 1938), The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson, 1959) -- Rebecca -- The Haunted House, the Haunting Mother: Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House -- The Haunting of Hill House -- References -- Filmography -- Theatre -- TV -- Chapter 3: Revengeful Ghosts: The Woman in Black (Hill, 1983), Beloved (Morrison, 1987) -- The Woman in Black (1983) -- Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) -- References -- Filmography -- Part II: Possession -- Chapter 4: True Love as Possession: Ashputtle (Carter, 1987), Lady Oracle (Atwood, 1976), The Greatcoat (Dunmore, 2012), The Glass Bottle Trick (Hopkinson, 2000) -- 'Ashputtle', Angela Carter (1987) -- Lady Oracle (1976), Margaret Atwood -- The Greatcoat, Helen Dunmore (2012) -- Duppies and 'The Glass Bottle Trick', Nalo Hopkinson (2000) -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 5: The Spectral Voice: In the Red Kitchen (Roberts, 1990), Affinity (Waters, 1999), Beyond Black (Mantel, 2005) -- Popular Ghosts and Real Ghost Hunting -- Spiritualism -- Spirit Contact -- In the Red Kitchen (1990), Michèle Roberts -- Beyond Black (2005), Hilary Mantel -- Affinity (1999), Sarah Waters -- References -- Filmography -- Theatre -- TV -- Chapter 6: Domestic Hauntings: The Little Stranger (Waters, 2009), Birdcage Walk (Dunmore, 2017), The Stopped Heart (Myerson, 2016) -- Haunted Houses and Change -- The Little Stranger (2009): Sarah Waters. |
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Silenced Women: Oppressive, Domestic Spaces, Murders Birdcage Walk (Helen Dunmore, 2017) -- Julie Myerson's The Stopped Heart (2016) -- References -- Filmography -- Music -- TV -- Part III: Traumas of Place: Postcolonial Hauntings -- Chapter 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 Croc -- Artifice, Bondmaids and Family Ghosts-Catherine Lim -- The Bondmaid (1997) -- The Serpent's Tooth (1982) -- Domestic Ghosts: Shirley Lim, 'Haunting' (1981) -- Sandi Tan's The Black Isle (2012) -- Singapore: Cities, Space, Place and Ghosts -- Pontianaks at Home, Ponti (Sharlene Teo, 2018), 'The House of Aunts' (Spirits Abroad, 2014), Zen Cho -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 8: Traumas of Place, Travel, Hauntology: Novel without a Name (Duong, 1995), Daughters of the House (Roberts, 1992), The Winter Ghosts (Mosse, 2010) -- Trauma: A Particular Form of Haunting -- Duong Thu Huong: Novel Without a Name (1995) -- Kate Mosse: The Winter Ghosts (2010) -- Michèle Roberts: Daughters of the House (1992) -- Conclusion -- References -- TV -- Chapter 9: Visits and Visitations: A Visit (Jackson, 1950), Ghost Summer (Due, 2015), Her Fearful Symmetry (Niffenegger, 2009), Hotel World (Smith, 2001) -- 'A Visit, or The Lovely House', Shirley Jackson (1950) -- Hotel World, Ali Smith (2001) -- Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger (2009) -- Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching (2009) -- Past Guilt and Ghostly Returns-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer (2015) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Breaking Boundaries, Leaking Truths, Pressing Issues: Ghost Wall (Moss, 2018) -- Breaking Boundaries, Leaking Truths: Ghost Wall (Sarah Moss, 2018). |
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Moving Forward by Learning from the Haunted Past -- References -- Index. |
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9783030890544 (electronic bk.) |
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