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>