The Perturbed Self

ISBN-13: 9781032036175 / Miękka / 2023 / 10 str.

Mengxing Fu

Opis

By comparison of the late nineteenth-century ghost stories between China and Britain, this monograph traces the entangled dynamics between ghost story writing, history-making and the molding of a gendered self.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. "Among Dark Woods and Black Fortresses": Xuan Ding’s Mythologisation of National History  3. "These Are What Westerners Refuse to Believe": Wang Tao’s Uncanny History  4. Two Ways to Conjure up a Ghost: Vernon Lee’s History versus Fiction  5. The Dead Woman Returning: E. Nesbit’s Female Gothic Myth

O autorze

Mengxing Fu is a lecturer at Shanghai International Studies University, China. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, comparative literature, fantasy, and women’s writing. Her recent articles on ghost literature have appeared in Neohelicon, Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, etc.