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Outlander's Sassenachs : essays on gender, race, orientation and the other in the novels and television series / edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.
Van Pelt Library PS 3557 .A22 O982 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gabaldon, Diana. Outlander novels.
- Gabaldon, Diana--Criticism and interpretation.
- Gabaldon, Diana.
- Outlander novels (Gabaldon, Diana).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 164 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- Outlander, an epic time travel adventure with plenty of history and romance, has hit cable television-and unlike many shows, this one seems designed particularly for women. The series emphasizes the female and gender role reversal, and addresses difficult topics like abortion, sexual abuse, alternative sexuality and race relations. The essays in this collection explore all these angles on Outlander, bringing in lore from history, film studies, and sociology. Some examine just the show with its camera angles, film choices, and use of gaze, while others tackle the eight-book series as well as the Lord John and short story spinoffs. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I: Questions of Diversity
- Privilege and Pity: Jamie on Slavery, Racism and Disability / Valerie Estelle Frankel
- Culloden and Wounded Knee: Genocide, Identity and Cultural Survival / Sandi Solis
- Claire Kens Well: Appropriation and Itenerant Performance in Outlander Onscreen / Elizabeth Elaine Tavares
- Part II: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity
- Gazing at Jamie Fraser / Araceli R. Lopez
- Jamie's "Others": Complicating Masculinity and Heroism Through His Foils / Jennifer Phillips
- Being Lord John: Homosexual Life in Georgian London / Valerie Estelle Frankel
- Part III: Women's Choice for Time Travelers
- Men, Women and Birth Control in the Early Outlander Books / Nicole M. DuPlessis
- The Beaton: Healing as Empowerment for Claire Beauchamp / Sarah Stegall
- Part IV: Claire as Feminist, Postfeminist, Anti-Feminist
- Reviewing Linear Time: History Repeating All Over Again (Now, Against You) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo G.A. Lando
- The Way We Were: Nostalgia, Romance and Anti-Feminism / Victoria Kennedy
- Outlander from Book to Screen: Power in Gender and Orientation / Yvonne D. Leach.
- Notes:
- Contains bibliographic records and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476664248
- 1476664242
- OCLC:
- 952390058
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