Catalogue BlurbThis is the first critical work to bring together contemporary women's writing and the Scottish fantasy tradition. Exploring four thematic areas of the supernatural - quests, dangerous women, doubles and ghosts - it pioneers in-depth readings of previously neglected texts and offers new readings of more popular texts.Revealing their explicit and implicit links to the Scottish supernatural tradition, Germanà points to the ways in which the texts simultaneously remain part of a distinctively Scottish canon while breaking from past traditions. She shows how these contemporary works explore ideas of otherness, engage with feminist and postmodernist discourses and question ideas of identity and the real.* New readings of texts including Ali Smith's Hotel World, Alice Thompson's Justine, Margaret Elphinstone's longer fiction, A.L. Kennedy's So I am Glad and Emma Tennant's The Bad Sister and Two Women of LondonAI Blurb This is the first critical work to bring together contemporary women's writing and the Scottish fantasy tradition. Exploring four thematic areas of the supernatural - quests, dangerous women, doubles and ghosts - it pioneers in-depth readings of previously neglected texts and offers new readings of more popular texts, including Ali Smith's Hotel World, Alice Thompson's Justine, Margaret Elphinstone's longer fiction, A.

L. Kennedy's So I Am Glad and Emma Tennant's The Bad Sister and Two Women of London.Revealing their explicit and implicit links to the Scottish supernatural tradition, Germanà points to the ways in which the texts simultaneously remain part of a distinctively Scottish canon while breaking from past traditions. She shows how these contemporary works explore ideas of otherness, engage with feminist and postmodernist discourses and question ideas of identity and the real.