The Perturbed Self: Gender and History in Late Nineteenth-Century Ghost Stories in China and Britain (Routledge Studies in Chinese Comparative Literature and Culture) - Tapa blanda

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Fu, Mengxing

 
9781032036175: The Perturbed Self: Gender and History in Late Nineteenth-Century Ghost Stories in China and Britain (Routledge Studies in Chinese Comparative Literature and Culture)
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ISBN 10: 1032036176 ISBN 13: 9781032036175
Editorial: Routledge, 2023

Sinopsis

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

Associated with times of anxiety, groups under marginalisation, 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 (宣鼎) and Wang Tao (王韬) 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 destabilising and constructive, subversive, and coercive.

This book will be welcomed by the Gothic studies community, as well as scholars working in the fields of women’s writing, nineteenth-century British literature, and Chinese literature.

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Acerca del autor

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.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1032036176
ISBN 13 
9781032036175
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
168
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