Review of Victoria Margree, British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930: Our Own Ghostliness

Fiona Snailham

doi:10.46911/jacm1094

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Review of Victoria Margree, British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930: Our Own Ghostliness

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In British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930: Our Own Ghostliness, Victoria Margree examines women’s ghost fiction as indicative of the problems inherent in traditional accounts of the literary transition from Victorianism to Modernism
Whilst the monograph accepts women’s voices as often being marginal to the dominant culture, it warns against the expectation that women writers will always use their voices to promote the subversion of accepted norms
Drawing on Mary Poovey’s 2008 work on the interrelationships between imaginative fiction and forms of financial writing, Margree argues that Oliphant and Riddell use the short story as a platform through which readers can be educated about financial ethics

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In British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930: Our Own Ghostliness, Victoria Margree examines women’s ghost fiction as indicative of the problems inherent in traditional accounts of the literary transition from Victorianism to Modernism. Review of Victoria Margree, British Women’s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930: Our Own Ghostliness.

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