Book Review: Emma Liggins, The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories. Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-1945 (London, Palgrave 2020)
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6 avril 2022
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In this interesting study, Emma Liggins investigates haunted house narratives by female writers through the prism of women’s gendered engagement with domestic space. In compelling readings of some twenty-five stories, ranging from 1850 to 1945, she shows how the house is turned into a source of terror or threat to women; how the home becomes unhomely. The haunted drawing rooms, bedrooms, gardens and libraries that dominate these stories are shown to be examples of an architectural uncanny whi...