Scottish women's gothic and fantastic writing : fiction since 1978 / [electronic resource]
Germanà, Monica,author.
This book provides a critical survey of the gothic texts of late twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish women writers including Kate Atkinson  Ellen Galford  A.L. Kennedy  Ali Smith and Emma Tennant focusing on four themes: quests and other worlds  witches  doubles and ghosts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Meet the others : an introduction to nation, gender and genre -- Quests and other worlds -- Witches, demon lovers and female monsters -- Doubles : bodily duplications and schizoid selves -- Ghosts : dissolving the boundaries -- The death of the other? -- Genealogies in Sian Hayton's trilogy.
This book provides a critical survey of the gothic texts of late twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish women writers including Kate Atkinson  Ellen Galford  A.L. Kennedy  Ali Smith and Emma Tennant focusing on four themes: quests and other worlds  witches  doubles and ghosts.
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