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Disruptive women of literature : rooting for the antiheroine / Eleanore Gardner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardner, Eleanore, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suspense fiction--History and criticism.
- Suspense fiction.
- Women antiheroes in literature.
- Transgression (Ethics) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]
- Contents:
- Contextualising the antiheroine figure in Western literary history. Archetypes, heroes, and the mythic origins of the antiheroine figure
- Literary vs television iterations and an ever-evolving definition
- Exploring the antiheroine's literary ancestor: nineteenth and early twentieth century notions of transgression
- Politicising the personal: the antiheroine and the women's liberation movement
- The Gothic antiheroine: defying deviancy. The female Gothic and its fresh façade
- Navigating the antiheroine's internalised misogyny: the transformative power of female friendship in Cat's eye and The robber bride
- Engaging with the Gothic: domestic spaces, female friendships, and the weaponisation of motherhood in The woman upstairs, The paper wasp and Eileen
- Serial killers, abject wives, and avenging punks: the antiheroine's negotiation of patriarchal cycles of violence in crime-thriller fiction. Rewriting the victim narrative and the impact of Millennium
- 'Three, and they label you a serial killer': Questions of gender and violence in My sister, the serial killer
- The maiming of the body: Lisbeth, Amy, and Camille
- Breaking the cycle of patriarchal violence: sisterly rivalry, the new femme fatale, and Lisbeth reborn in David Lagercrantz's Millennium.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Deakin University, 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781666951455 (electronic bk.)
- 1666951455 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032433122
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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