Voix d’outre-tombe dans la littérature féminine américaine de la fin du xixe siècle : « The Amber Gods » (Harriet Prescott Spofford), « Number 13 » (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps) et « ‘One of Us’ » (Grace Elizabeth King)
This paper examines the specific contribution of what can be regarded as a subgenre in the well-documented tradition of women writing supernatural fiction, namely those stories in which spectral voices invade the textual space by assuming the position of authority granted to the narrator. These othe...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2025-05-01
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| Series: | Caliban: French Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/13782 |
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| Summary: | This paper examines the specific contribution of what can be regarded as a subgenre in the well-documented tradition of women writing supernatural fiction, namely those stories in which spectral voices invade the textual space by assuming the position of authority granted to the narrator. These otherworldly voices allow a different kind of discourse to emerge from the depths of the text; they express an unauthorized version of what these women’s lives were truly like, thereby using their newly-conferred privilege to undermine the authority imposed onto them in their lifetimes. We shall focus on the ethical and aesthetic implications of such narrative strategies which somehow downplay the effect of sheer terror customarily associated with ghost stories and suggest a more subtly disquieting mirror effect between the narrator and the reader. |
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| ISSN: | 2425-6250 2431-1766 |