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The bitch is back [electronic resource] : wicked women in literature / Sarah Appleton Aguiar. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aguiar, Sarah Appleton, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Women in literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Women and literature--United States.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain.
- Feminism and literature.
- Villains in literature.
- Good and evil in literature.
- Feminism and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 173 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2001.
- Summary:
- Aguiar, focusing on the traits and characteristics of the strong-willed female protagonist, analyzes over one hundred examples in a wide range of literature. Among the characters discussed are Zenia in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, Ruth Patchett in Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Sula in Toni Morrison's Sula, and Ginny in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The season of the bitch.
- To arche the type or not to arche the type.
- The male perspective.
- Women reading and women writing the bitch.
- Revising the literary history.
- The art of becoming the bitch.
- Syzygy.
- Coda: The bitch code.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-45749-2
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