Medusa's daughters : magic and monstrosity from women writers of the fin-de-siécle

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Medusa's daughters is a sinister Gothic delight, full of unrepentant witches, ghosts, dryads, and changelings. Goss is an expert guide to the strange codes of fin-de-siécle patriarch and the bold, monstrous women who defied them.

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Gothic fiction Gothic poetry Short stories

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ISBN:

9781941360361

Description:

xviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

An Egyptian cigarette / Kate Chopin
The singer ; All hallows night / Lizette Woodworth Reese
Luella Miller / Mary Wilkins Freeman
The witch ; The white women ; The other side of a mirror / Mary Coleridge
Dionea / Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)
The dryads / A. Mary F. Robinson
The white witch ; The changeling / Olive Custance
Man-size in marble / E. Nesbit
The love-talker ; Niamh / Ethna Carbery (Anna MacManus) ; The princess Baladina, her adventure / Willa Cather
The watcher in the wood ; The white witch / Dora Sigerson Shorter
Bewitched / Edith Wharton
The farmer's bride ; The changeling / Charlotte Mew
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ballad the bird-bride ; The orchard of the moon / Rosamund Marriott Watson
A white night / Charlotte Mew
A drowned girl to her lover ; Hertha / Nora Hopper Chesson
The hermit and the wild woman / Edith Wharton
Nymphs ; The children of lir / Katherine Tynan
The princess and the hedge-pig / E. Nesbit
A castle in the air ; The mermaid's chapel / May Kendall
A ballad of victory / Dollie Radford
When I was a witch / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Atavism ; The fairy goldsmith ; Madman's song / Elinor Wylie
A haunted house / Virginia Woolf

LCCN:

2019943335

Control Number:

3068719

Other Authors:

Goss, Theodora, editor

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