Disruptive Women of Literature

Disruptive Women of Literature

Rooting for the Antiheroine

Gardner, Eleanore

Lexington Books

07/2024

234

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9781666951448

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Contextualising the Antiheroine Figure in Western Literary History

Chapter One: Archetypes, Heroes, and the Mythic Origins of the Antiheroine Figure

Chapter Two: Literary vs Television Iterations and an Ever-Evolving Definition

Chapter Three: Exploring the Antiheroine's Literary Ancestor: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Notions of Transgression

Chapter Four: Politicising the Personal: The Antiheroine and the Women's Liberation Movement

Part Two: The Gothic Antiheroine: Defying Deviancy

Chapter Five: The Female Gothic and its Fresh Facade

Chapter Six: Navigating the Antiheroine's Internalised Misogyny: The Transformative Power of Female Friendship in Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride

Chapter Seven: Engaging with the Gothic: Domestic Spaces, Female Friendships, and the Weaponisation of Motherhood in The Woman Upstairs, The Paper Wasp and Eileen

Part Three: Serial Killers, Abject Wives, and Avenging Punks: The Antiheroine's Negotiation of Patriarchal Cycles of Violence in Crime-Thriller Fiction

Chapter Eight: Rewriting the Victim Narrative and the Impact of Millennium

Chapter Nine: 'Three, and they label you a serial killer': Questions of Gender and Violence in My Sister, the Serial Killer

Chapter Ten: The Maiming of the Body: Lisbeth, Amy, and Camille

Chapter Eleven: Breaking the Cycle of Patriarchal Violence: Sisterly Rivalry, the New Femme Fatale, and Lisbeth Reborn in David Lagercrantz's Millennium

Conclusion

Works Cited

About the Author
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Abjection;Antiheroine;Contemporary Fiction;Crime Fiction;Gothic;Liminality;Women in Literature