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Beyond the Haunted House?
2015
Overview
Modernist women writers refashioned the haunted house setting of the Victorian ghost story in order to address the unsettling allure of the past and fears around an increasingly mechanised future. ‘The past in the Gothic never quite stays dead’, Diana Wallace claims, ‘and is therefore never fully knowable. This is why Gothic fiction so often seems to demand psychoanalytic interpretations as a way of disinterring the repressed secrets of the past’ (2013: 4). In the Victorian ghost story, the angry or jealous revenant prompts the revelation of the secrets of the past, putting what was unspeakable into discourse in
