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Unfinished Business : = Ghosts, Mediums, & the Feminist Neo-Victorian Novel.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Unfinished Business :/
其他題名:	Ghosts, Mediums, & the Feminist Neo-Victorian Novel.
作者:	Steinbaugh, Nicole M.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (74 pages)
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International80-12.
標題:	British and Irish literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13880504click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781392234778

Unfinished Business : = Ghosts, Mediums, & the Feminist Neo-Victorian Novel.
Steinbaugh, Nicole M.

Unfinished Business :Ghosts, Mediums, & the Feminist Neo-Victorian Novel. - 1 online resource (74 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12.

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Illinois University, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references

The ghost story is one of our most malleable traditions, and it is one many still closely associate with the Victorians, as evidenced by the many neo-Victorian ghost stories in existence. This thesis's goal is to reveal how these neo-Victorian novels, far from being an exercise of nostalgia and escapism, perform important cultural, especially feminist work, and how much of it is done through a revisionary approach to the Spiritualist movement. This work is accomplished through five functions of the ghost, wherein: 1. The neo-Victorian novel, as a ghost in and of itself, reveals the vital connection of past issues to present ones; 2. The ghost itself, simply by appearing and existing, is a validation of women's often questioned lived experiences; 3. The spirit, by acting or speaking through the mouth of another, or by being embodied by the medium herself, is a remarkable vehicle for gender identity expression; 4. Acts of fraud surrounding mediumship and paranormal activity serve as a commentary on feminist and patriarchal power struggles involving authority over reality and fiction (that is, when committed by men in neo-Victorian novels, it acts as a way of preserving patriarchal forces, and when committed by women, it represents a method of maneuvering around disadvantages in an imbalanced system); 5. Ghosts in neo-Victorian novels--rather than endorsing the rhetoric that allows ghost-witnesses to be pathologized, and therefore proclaimed socially deviant,--express women's oppressed desires and ambitions.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781392234778Subjects--Topical Terms:

3433225
British and Irish literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

FeministIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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