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Ladataan... Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (vuoden 2019 painos)Tekijä: Lisa Kröger (Tekijä)
TeostiedotMonster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (tekijä: Lisa Kröger)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. A pretty good overview of female horror writers from Victorian times to the present, with major works and biographical sketches. ( ) This book wasn't quite what I expected from the subtitle. Rather than focusing on early women writers, it stretched up to the early 2000's (with references to a little bit later). As a result (covering 41 writers plus several summary chapters) there wasn't really the opportunity to focus as much on the earlier writers. If I hadn't gone in with the expectation I would have rated it higher. As it stands it is a useful book to get an overview of these writers (as well as to greatly expand my want-to-read list). Each section contains a summary of the writer followed by a recommended reading list of both their work and those influenced by them. This is a retrospective of women writing mostly supernatural horror from the gothic period until today. Each period has a short introduction giving some context, followed by profiles and reading lists for women from that period. Most of the fiction involves ghosts and hauntings of some kind, from Gothic romances and Victorian ghost stories to 20th-century domestic haunted houses and the modern-day gothic. I enjoyed this although I was already pretty familiar with most of the books and authors mentioned.
You will find here, in short, hundreds of references to interesting books and stories, enough not only to remedy historical and bibliographical gaps, but to launch you on your own expedition into the desolate corridors and shadowy halls of horror history. Kröger & Anderson write in consistently engaging prose and display depth and breadth in their knowledge of literary matters. In addition to the analysis and history of these writers, Kröger and Anderson offer a list of essential readings from, and film adaptations of, each woman’s work. This biographical index will reawaken readers’ admiration for established virtuosos of literary terror and inspire curiosity in lesser-known specialists in fictitious fear. Straddling the divide between highly useful reference and compulsively readable stories about the writing lives of the women of horror, this book will keep you up all night (one way or another). Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinPalkinnotDistinctions
Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn't exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction. Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband's heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret "Mad Madge" Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)' If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson, whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series, then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era. You'll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Coltor, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today's vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales. Part biography, part reader's guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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