Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing

Monica Germana considers four thematic areas of the supernatural - quests, dangerous women, doubles and ghosts - each explored in one of the four main chapters. Being the first critical work to bring together contemporary women's writing and the Scottish fantasy tradition, the volume pioneers in-depth investigation of some previously neglected texts such as Ali Smith's Hotel World ; Alice Thompson's Justine ; Margaret Elphinstone's longer fiction, as well as offering new readings of more popular