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Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing / edited by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- American fiction--Women authors.
- English fiction--Women authors.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Fiction--Authorship.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 222 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave, 2007.
- Summary:
- In recent years, historical fiction, particularly that by women authors, has been at the cutting edge of postmodern reconceptualizations of the past and of contemporary worlds. This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK, offering new insights into the works of internationally acclaimed as well as popular writers, including Florence Barclay, A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Caryl Churchill, Helen Darville, Stevie Davies, Eva Figes, Philippa Gregory, Susan Kenney, Daphne Marlatt, Sena Jeter Naslund, Michele Roberts, Alice Thompson, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, and covering those narratives that defy categorization, the essays assembled in this volume offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history.
- Contents:
- Part I Towards a Reconceptualization of History and Identity
- 1 The Witch, the Puritan and the Prophet: Historical Novels and Seventeenth-Century History / Katharine Hodgkin 15
- 2 History as Story in Angela Carter's American Ghosts and Old World Wonders / Sarah Gamble 30
- 3 Falling Off the Edge of the World: History and Gender in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic / Sherry Booth 45
- 4 Time, Space and (Her)Story in the Fiction of Eva Figes / Julia Tofantsuk 59
- 5 From Demidenko to Darville: Behind the Scenes of a Literary Carnival / Rachel Morley 73
- Part II Historiographic Re-visionings
- 6 Historicizing Witchcraft Throughout the Ages: Joanna Baillie and Caryl Churchill / Christine A. Colon 89
- 7 The Benefits of Watching the Circus Animals Desert: Myth, Yeats and Patriarchy in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus / Michael Sinowitz 102
- 8 Passion and Possession as Alternatives to 'Cosmic Masculinity' in 'Herstorical Romances' / Georges Letissier 116
- 9 Michele Roberts: Histories and Herstories in In the Red Kitchen, Fair Exchange and The Looking Glass / Sarah Falcus 133
- Part III Generic Experimentations with Gender and Genre
- 10 Rewriting The Rover / Johanna M. Smith 149
- 11 The Convent Novel and the Uses of History / Diana Wallace 158
- 12 The Revenge of the Stereotype: Rewriting the History of the Gothic Heroine in Alice Thompson's Justine / Maria Vara 172
- 13 The Resisting Writer: Revisiting the Canon, Rewriting History in Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer / Jeannette King 182
- 14 Breaking the Mould? Sarah Waters and the Politics of Genre / Mark Llewellyn 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230005044
- 0230005047
- OCLC:
- 76751002
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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