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What Did Miss Darrington See? : An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction (1989)

by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Editor)

Other authors: Mary Austin (Contributor), Alice Brown (Contributor), Barbara Burford (Contributor), Leonora Carrington (Contributor), Emma B. Cobb (Contributor) — 21 more, Olivia Howard Dunbar (Contributor), Phyllis Eisenstein (Contributor), Jules Faye (Contributor), Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (Contributor), Ellen Glasgow (Contributor), Anna Maria Hall (Contributor), Helen R. Hull (Contributor), Inez Haynes Irwin (Contributor), Rosemary Jackson (Introduction), Vernon Lee (Contributor), Georgia Wood Pangborn (Contributor), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Contributor), Joanna Russ (Contributor), Vita Sackville-West (Contributor), Olive Schreiner (Contributor), Anne Sexton (Contributor), Lady Eleanor Smith (Contributor), Armonia Somers (Contributor), Ada Trevanion (Contributor), Lisa Tuttle (Contributor), Luisa Valenzuela (Contributor)

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Winner of a 1989 Lambda Literary Award, this collection of twenty-four entertaining and haunting 19th-and 20th-century tales from the US, Britain, and Latin America reclaims a literary tradition that has long been overlooked. Using such techniques as magic realism, allegory, and surrealism, the authors re-imagine the cliches of supernatural fiction, focusing on female characters and treating traditional themes in inventive and provocative ways. Among the authors included are Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Luisa Valenzuela, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Burford, and Joanna Russ.… (more)

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808.83Literature › modified standard subdivisions › Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures › Collections of literary texts from more than two literatures › Collections of fiction

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