Orientalist Gothic

Varieties of Female Gothic #6

by Gary Kelly (Editor), Sydney Owenson Morgan (Contributor)

This text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It illustrates the various forms of female Gothic literature as a vehicle for representing the modern forms of subjectivity, or complex and authentic inward experience and identity.

Contents:
The missionary (1811) / Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan AKA Glorvina

191 pages, Hardcover

Published August 18, 2002

About the author

Dr Gary Kelly is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. He holds a BA in History from the University of Toronto; and a BA and DPhil in English from the University of Oxford.

His research centres around Women's writing, Romanticism, Bluestocking work, Popular novels and Romantic fiction of the 18th & 19th centuries, Jane Austen, and Gothic literature.