Avenging Angels: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers
Title | Avenging Angels: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Edmundson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2018-12-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781906469641 |
In this electrifying collection, Melissa Edmundson showcases ten authors who led lives that challenged Victorian notions of how women should behave and brought those transgressive ideas into their fiction.
Women's Weird 2
Title | Women's Weird 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Edmundson |
Publisher | Handheld Classics |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2020-10-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781912766451 |
Women's Weird 2 contains thirteen remarkably chilling stories originally published from 1891 to 1937, by women authors from the USA, Canada, the UK, India and Australia.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing
Title | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Lesa Scholl |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 1753 |
Release | 2022-12-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030783189 |
Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K. Jerome
Title | Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K. Jerome PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton |
Publisher | Victorian Secrets |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2012-07-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1906469415 |
Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) was the author of Three Men in a Boat, one of the best-loved books in the English language, but much of his prolific career has been left unexplored. Over a period of forty years, Jerome was variously a humourist, novelist, journalist, essayist and dramatist, leaving behind him a prodigious quantity of work, belying his famous quote "I like work. It fascinates me. I could sit and look at it for hours." In this major new biography, Carolyn Oulton unearths hitherto unknown details of Jerome's early life in Walsall with his Micawberish father and God-fearing mother, and follows his momentous move to the Fairy City of London, where a formative encounter with Charles Dickens influenced his choice of profession. Although famous for his unerring ability to capture middle-class experience in comic form, Oulton also reveals Jerome's serious side as campaigner on animal rights, champion of the underdog, and fierce opponent of the New Woman. Jerome was desperate to shake off the persistent association with larking about on the Thames, but never quite achieved it in his own lifetime. Jerome K. Jerome is revealed in Oulton's book as a complex figure worthy of reassessment, with his contradictions, idiosyncrasies and, above all, his exquisite wit. This edition also includes a Foreword by Jeremy Nicholas, President of the Jerome K. Jerome Society.
East of Suez
Title | East of Suez PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Perrin |
Publisher | Victorian Secrets |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1906469180 |
Originally published in 1901, 'East of Suez' was Alice Perrin's first collection of short stories. Her fascinating and thought-provoking tales of Anglo-Indian life rival the best work of Kipling, and were hugely successful in their day. Perrin tells stories of illicit love against a beautifully-drawn backdrop of the mystical east, interweaving the supernatural with exquisite details of her characters' lives. This scholarly edition includes: a critical introduction; author biography; suggestions for further reading; explanatory notes; contextual material on representations of the British Raj; illustrations from 'The Illustrated London News' and 'The Windsor Magazine'.
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
Title | Carnacki, the Ghost Finder PDF eBook |
Author | William Hope Hodgson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2017-12-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1537803174 |
Detective stories in which the great Thomas Carnacki investigates the supernatural using scientific tools, such as photography, and tools that are augmented by theories of the supernatural, such as the electric pentacle, which uses vacuum tubes to repel supernatural forces.
Haunting Experiences
Title | Haunting Experiences PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Goldstein |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2007-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0874216818 |
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.