Digging up the past : exploring haunting and trauma-in and of the neo-Victorian novel : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Creative Writing at Massey University, New Zealand

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Digging up the past : exploring haunting and trauma-in and of the neo-Victorian novel : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Creative Writing at Massey University, New Zealand

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This thesis explores haunting in and of the neo-Victorian novel, and representations of female trauma. The thesis consists of two sections: a critical analysis of the way that neo-Victorian texts operate in relationship to their Victorian predecessors to voice historically silenced trauma narratives, which still have relevance in our modern world; and a creative section, the first part of a novel that employs Victorian trauma tropes to tell a story of female suffering and solidarity. Through ...

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Thesis

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Masters

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2022

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Bland, Natasha

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/17558

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360201 Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

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