عنوان

Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing /

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Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing /

[Book]

edited by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn.

New York :

Palgrave,

2007.

xi, 222 pages ;

23 cm

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The witch, the Puritan and the prophet: historical novels and seventeenth-century history / Katharine Hodgkin -- History as story in Angela Carter's American Ghosts and Old World Wonders / Sarah Gamble -- Falling off the edge of the world: history and genders in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic / Sherry Booth -- Time, space and (Her) story in the fiction of Eva Figes / Julia Tofantsuk -- From Demidenko to Darville: behind the scenes of a literary carnival / Rachel Morley -- Historicizing witchcraft throughout the ages: Joanna Baillie and Caryl Churchill / Christine A. Colon -- The benefits of watching the circus animals desert: myth, Yeats, and patriarchy in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus / Michael Sinowitz -- Passion and possession as alternatives to 'Cosmic masculinity' in 'Herstorical romances' / Georges Letissier -- Michele Roberts: histories and herstories in In the Red Kitchen, Fair Exchange and The Looking Glass / Sarah Falcus -- Rewriting The Rover / Johanna M. Smith -- The convent novel and the uses of history / Diana Wallace -- The revenge of the stereotype: rewriting the history of the Gothic heroine in Alice Thompson's Justine / Maria Vara -- The resisting writer: revisiting the canon, rewriting history in Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife, or the Star-Gazer / Jeannette King -- Breaking the mould? Sarah Waters and the politics of genre / Mark Llewellyn.

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"The essays assembled in this volume offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history."--Jacket.

American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

Fiction-- Authorship.

Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.

Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Engels.

Fictie.

Fiction-- Authorship.

Frauenliteratur

Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.

Roman américain-- Femmes écrivains-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.

Roman anglais-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.

Roman anglais-- Femmes écrivains-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.

Vrouwelijke auteurs.

Women and literature.

Englisch.

Great Britain.

United States.

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Heilmann, Ann.

Llewellyn, Mark,1979-

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