3. Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women’s Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Foreword viii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. The Elusive Melody: Music and Trauma in New Woman Short Stories 15
7. 3. Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women’s Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity 32
8. 4. Potboilers or ‘Glimpses’ of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story 50
9. 5. War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen 66
10. 6. ‘Haunted, whether we like it or not’: The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark 81
11. 7. Disaggregative Character Identity and the Politics of Aesthetic In-betweenness in Angela Carter’s Short Narratives 96
12. 8. New Waves of Interest: Women’s Short Story Writing in the Late Twentieth Century 114
13. 9. Feminist F(r)iction: Short Stories and Postfeminist Politics at the Millennial Moment 133
14. 10. Class as Destiny in the Short Stories of Tessa Hadley 148
15. 11. Address, Temporality and Misdelivery: The Postal Effects of Ali Smith’s Short Stories 163
16. 12. Housewives and Half-Stories: A Question of Genre and Gender in Microfiction 179
17. 13. Postscript: British Women’s Short Story Writing 193
18. Contributor Biographies 199
19. Index 202