Framing Women : Changing Frames of Representation from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism / Sandra Carroll, Peter Wagner, Birgit Pretzsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carroll, Sandra.

Pretzsch, Birgit.

Wagner, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

European literature--18th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

European literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Women--History--Modern period, 1600-.

Women.

Women in literature--History and criticism--18th century.

European literature--History--Modern period, 1600-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 346 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With contributions of scholars from Europe and North America, this book covers the representation of women in word and image in the context of changing frames of mentalities in two distinct periods - the Enlightenment and postmodernism. Subjects and artists/authors covered include prostitution, English and French art (Hogarth, Reynolds, Beardsley, Greuze), postmodern feminist theatre, recent fiction by Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood and Spanish literature. Special chapters deal with the construction of women in recent popular animated cartoons and computer games.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. The Eighteenth Century

Fallen Women in the Eighteenth Century

Masquerade as No-Man's-Land: The Representation of Women in A Harlot's Progress 2

The Fall and Rise of Kitty Fisher: Joshua Reynolds and the Sitter's Share

Framing the Wife: Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Sexual Contract

Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and its Ambivalent Position in the 'Herstory' of Gender Roles: Cibber, The Careless Husband; Lillo, Silvia; Richardson, Pamela

II. From Victorianism to Postmodernism

Love, Death, and Grotesquerie: Beardsley's Illustrations in Wilde and Pope

Female Scientists / Women and Science: New Characters and Themes in British Drama

Natural Born Quilter: Framing Grace Marks in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Cormac McCarthy's Joycean Woman or Epiphany Revisited

Sex Literally Revisited: Being-a-Body and Having-a-Body in Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Luisa Futoransky and Juan Manuel de Prada

Streamlining Multicultural Feminism: Shakespearean Traits in Disney's The Lion King

Questioning the Frames of Lara Croft: Body, Identity, Reality

Notes on Contributors

General Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

3-11-094939-3

OCLC:

979955866