1st Edition

Margaret Oliphant’s Curative Gothic Literature

By Katerina García-Walsh Copyright 2026
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Prolific Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), 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 Oliphant’s Gothic literature, in the light of her religious beliefs, cultural context and experiences of death and mourning, as she survived her... Read more

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

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Katerina García-Walsh is a 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.