Margaret Oliphants Curative Gothic Literature by Katerina Ga... - 9781032998725

Margaret Oliphants Curative Gothic LiteratureAuthor(s): Katerina Garca-Walsh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032998725, 978-1032998725\nSynopsis\nProlific Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant [tel], remembered chiefly for her realist fiction and biting literary criticism of contemporary authors, also wrote nineteen supernatural tales. This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphants Gothic literature, in the light of her religious beliefs, cultural context and experiences of death and mourning, as she survived her husband and all six of her children.\n\nOliphants stories set in the afterlife depict the dead as inhabiting a new existence characterised by spiritual growth, while her tales set on earth attempt contact between the mortal and immortal planes. Garca-Walsh illustrates Oliphants unique theological conception of afterliving, which ultimately seeks to eradicate the divide between the living a.