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The perturbed self : gender and history in late nineteenth-century ghost stories in China and Britain
- Title
- The perturbed self : gender and history in late nineteenth-century ghost stories in China and Britain / Mengxing Fu.
- Author
- Fu, Mengxing, 1990-
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 158 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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. Associated with times of anxiety, groups under marginalization and tensions with orthodox narratives, ghost stories from two distinguished literary traditions are explored through the writings and lives of four innovative writers of this period, namely Xuan Ding and Wang Tao in China and Vernon Lee and E. Nesbit in Britain. Through this cross-cultural investigation, the book illuminates how a gendered self is constructed in each culture and what cultural baggage and assets are brought into this construction. It also ventures to sketch a common poetics underlying a 'literature of the anomaly' that can be both destabilizing and constructive, subversive and coercive. This book will be welcomed by the community of gothic studies, as well as scholars working in the fields of women's writing, nineteenth-century British literature and Chinese literature"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in Chinese comparative literature and culture
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Ghost stories, Chinese > History and criticism
- Chinese fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Ghost stories, English > History and criticism
- Gender identity in literature
- Women and literature > China > History > 19th century
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Chinese fiction
- English fiction
- English fiction > Women authors
- Ghost stories, Chinese
- Ghost stories, English
- Women and literature
- China
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-7309
- ISBN
- 9781032036151
- 103203615X
- 9781032036175
- 1032036176
- LCCN
- 2021009639
- OCLC
- 1246673622
- Author
- Fu, Mengxing, 1990- author.
- Title
- The perturbed self : gender and history in late nineteenth-century ghost stories in China and Britain / Mengxing Fu.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in Chinese comparative literature and culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Fu, Mengxing, 1990- The perturbed self Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022. 9781003188223 (DLC) 2021009640
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-7309