Female Fantastic

<p>For women-identified writers of both eras, the fantastic offered double vision. Not only did the genre offer strategic cover for challenging the status quo, but also a heuristic mechanism for teasing out the gendered psyche’s links to creative, personal, and erotic agency. These dynamic presentations of female and gender-queer subjectivity, are linked in intriguing and complex matrices to key moments in gender(ed) history.</p><p></p><p>This volume contains essays from international scholars covering a wide range of topics, including werewolves, mummies, fairies, demons, time travel, ghosts, haunted spaces and objects, race, gender, queerness, monstrosity, madness, incest, empire, medicine, and science. By interrogating two non-consecutive decades, we seek to uncover the inter-relationships among fantastic literature, feminism, and modern identity and culture. Indeed, while this book considers the relationship between the 1890s and 1920s, it is more an examination of women’s modernism in light of gendered literary production during the fin-de-siècle than the reverse.</p> <p>Toward a Female Fantastic <em>Rebecca D. Soares, Lizzie Harris McCormick, and Jennifer Mitchell </em><strong>Section 1: </strong>1. Rubbish, Treasure, Litter, Tatters: Fantastic Objects in Context <em>Jill Galvan </em>2. Framing the Female Narrative: Subversive Ghost Storytelling in Works by Margaret Oliphant, Vernon Lee, and Edith Nesbit <em>Anne DeLong </em>3. Monstrous Femininity and Objectified Masculinity in Daphne du Maurier’s "The Doll" <em>Donna Mitchell </em>4. Uncanny Mediums: Haunted Radio, Supernaturally Intuitive Women, and Agatha Christie’s "Wireless" <em>Julia Panko </em>5. Buyer Beware: Haunted Objects in the Supernatural Tales of Margery Lawrence Me<em>lissa Edmundson </em><strong>Section 2: </strong>Profoundly and Irresolvably Political: Fantastic Spaces <em>Luke Thurston </em>1. Female Desire, Colonial Ireland, and the "limits of the possible" in E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross’s The Silver Fox <em>Anne Jamison </em>2. The Haunting House in Elizabeth Bowen’s "The Shadowy Third" <em>Céline Magot </em>3. Faerie Fruit and the Queer Codes of Feminist High Fantasy: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees <em>Jean Mills </em><strong>Section 3: </strong>The Fantastic and the Modern Female Experience: Fantastic People <em>Scott Rogers </em>1. Marie Corelli’s Ziska and Fantastic Feminism <em>Mary Clai Jones </em>2. The Fantastic and the Woman Question in Edith Nesbit’s Male Gothic Stories <em>Andrew Hock Soon Ng </em>3. Fantastic Transformations: Queer Desires and "Uncanny Time" in Work by Radclyffe Hall and Virginia Woolf <em>Jennifer Mitchell </em>4. "To find my real friends I have to travel a long way": Queer Time Travel in Katharine Burdekin’s Speculative Fiction <em>Elizabeth English </em><strong>Section 4: </strong>Invitation to Dissidence: Fantastic Creatures <em>Jessica DeCoux </em>1. Rewriting the Romantic Satan: The Sorrows and Cynicism of Marie Corelli <em>Colleen Morrissey </em>2. Beauty is the Beast: Shapeshifting, Suffrage, and Sexuality in Clemence Housman’s The Were-wolf and Aino Kallas’s The Wolf’s Bride <em>Lizzie Harris McCormick </em>3. The Doctor Treats the Ten-Breasted Monster: Medicine, the Fantastic Body, and Ideological Abuse in Djuna Barnes’s Ryder <em>Kate Schnur</em></p>