Ghost Stories by British and American Women: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography

by Carpenter,Lynette

• ISBN13: 9780824055400
• ISBN10: 0824055403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Covering a tradition ignored by most critics, this bibliography assembles and documents a large body of supernatural fiction written by women in English from the end of the 18th century to the present. These stories, the work of women whose literary reputations, personal histories, and bodies of work vary widely, challenge the narrow way in which supernatural literature has traditionally been regarded: they indicate a much richer and more complex set of literary responses to the supernatural than has been hitherto acknowledged. The writers included range from Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic novelists to Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Gilman, and Edith Wharton to such modern writers as Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and A.S. Byatt. The volume will be of interest to literary and cultural historians and of particular importance to women's studies scholars.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
Introduction	xi	(32)
Explanatory Notes	xliii
Annotated Bibliography	3	(166)
Key to Collection Abbreviations	169	(4)
Index of Themes and Motifs	173