Margaret Oliphants Curative Gothic Literature

This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphant's 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.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter I: Realism Beyond Death
Chapter II: Liminal Lands
Chapter III: Ghosts Among the Living
Chapter IV: Curative Connections
Chapter V: Seeking Divine Harmony
Conclusions
Appendices & Bibliographies

About the author

Katerina García-Walsh is Juan de la Cierva National Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. She was awarded a PhD for her thesis on Spectral Trauma and Narrative Memory in Margaret Oliphant's Gothic at the University of St Andrews in November 2023.

Product details

• Authors: Katerina Garcia-Walsh, Katerina García-Walsh
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032998725
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3299872-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers