{"id":5054,"date":"2018-08-21T20:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2018-08-21T20:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:59:16","slug":"melissa-edmundson-womens-colonial-gothic-writing-1850-1930-haunted-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2018\/08\/21\/melissa-edmundson-womens-colonial-gothic-writing-1850-1930-haunted-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Edmundson, <em>Women&#8217;s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5055\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/womens-colonial-gothic-writing-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/womens-colonial-gothic-writing-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/womens-colonial-gothic-writing.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Women's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Haunted Empire<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melissa Edmundson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This book explores women writers\u2019 involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on\u00a0women\u2019s experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book\u00a0investigates how\u00a0women writers appropriated the Gothic genre\u2014and its emphasis on fear, isolation, troubled identity, racial otherness, and sexual deviancy\u2014in order to take these anxieties into the farthest realms of the British Empire. The chapters show how Gothic themes told from a\u00a0woman\u2019s perspective emerge in unique ways when set in the different colonial regions that comprise the scope of this book: Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Edmundson argues that women\u2019s Colonial Gothic writing tends to be more critical of imperialism, and thereby more subversive, than that of their male counterparts. This book will be of interest to students and academics interested in women\u2019s writing, the Gothic, and colonial studies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melissa Edmundson<\/strong>\u00a0is Lecturer of English at Clemson University and specializes in 19<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup> century British women writers, ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction. She is the author of\u00a0<em>Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain<\/em>\u00a0(2013).<\/p>\n<p>Order online at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9783319769165#aboutAuthors\">https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930 Haunted Empire Melissa Edmundson This book explores women writers\u2019 involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on\u00a0women\u2019s experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book\u00a0investigates how\u00a0women writers appropriated the Gothic genre\u2014and its emphasis on fear, isolation, troubled identity, racial otherness, and sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[497],"tags":[1627,937,576,1847,1581,627],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}