Masters on New Woman Fiction and Masculinity in Ghost Stories
Dr Joellen Masters has published a book review in the journal The Latchkey: Journal of New Woman Studies. Masters reviewed, New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part 2, Vols. 4-6, edited by Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton (Pickering & Chatto).
In September, Masters then traveled to Cornwall, England to participate in “Haunted Men: Masculinity in the Ghost Stories of the Victorian and Edwardian Eras,” an international, one-day symposium “on the thorny issue of masculinity in the ghost stories of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.” Hosted by University College Falmouth, the symposium examined “issues of maleness, feminization, rationality, the paranormal, language, history, class, embodiment, the family and the familiar.” Masters presented a paper on “Worldly Experience and Superior Wisdom: Odd Women and Shades of Masculinity in Rhoda Broughton’s Twilight Stories.”