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The Law of the Ghost: Late Nineteenth Century Ghost Stories in China and Britain
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Fu, Mengxing |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | The law of the human world is often seen as inadequate in implementing justice, so that imaginations about an alternative law appear frequently in literature, and that is the law of the ghost. Cultural imaginations of the ghost in both East and West are closely related with ideas of justice. In traditional Chinese literature and folklore the ghost is often perceived as a force to rectify wrongs that cannot be satisfactorily redressed in the patriarchal patrilineal society, and a genre of supernatural short stories called zhiguai abounds with ghosts taking their just revenge. In English literature, the avenging ghost has featured prominently in Gothic fiction and ghost stories, its moral connotation sometimes ambiguous. This paper focuses on the revenging female ghost motif in stories by late nineteenth century Chinese writer Xuan Ding and British writer Vernon Lee and explores how justice is effected in a matrix of gender and power, and the difference in the conceptualization of justice of both cultures. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://owet.pw/1573856226.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
