Something Wicked Westward Goes: Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s Californian Uncanny

Something Wicked Westward Goes: Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s Californian Uncanny

This essay offers a first critical reading of American author Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s short story “The Warlock’s Shadow” (1886), asserting that the tale appropriates historical traumas in order to navigate, and transgress, boundaries of genre and gender. The strangeness of the text’s Central...

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Main Author: Robyn Pritzker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
US American Gothic
nineteenth-century literature
US American colonialism
US American women’s literature
uncanny short fiction
Californian literature
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/2/47

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https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/2/47

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