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"Charlotte Riddell's The Uninhabited House (1875) tells the story of River Hall and the secrets that are hidden behind its doors. Within this haunted house, Riddell combines the supernatural with Victorian anxieties over stolen inheritance, crime, greed, and class mobility. This new Broadview Edition includes a detailed biography of Charlotte Riddell and illustrations from the original appearance of the novella in Routledge's Magazine. The contextual material in the edition highlights Victorian cultural, historical, and literary influences on Riddell's text, including women's contributions to the ghost story, print culture and the development of supernatural fiction, the link between ghost stories and the holidays, the importance of the haunted house, ghost hunting, and popular beliefs about ghosts in the Victorian era. This edition also includes Riddell's ghost story, "The Open Door" (1882), which serves as a useful companion text for The Uninhabited House."--

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781554815036
  • ISBN-10: 1554815037
  • Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
  • Publish Date: March 2022
  • Dimensions: 8.43 x 5.43 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
  • Page Count: 264

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