Women Writers and Experimental Narratives

Women Writers and Experimental Narratives

Early Modern to Contemporary

Philips, Deborah; Aughterson, Kate

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

01/2022

272

Mole

Inglês

9783030496531

15 a 20 dias

384

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1. Introduction.- 2. 'Unlink the Chain': Experiment in Aphra Behn's Novels.- 3. Experiment in Prose: Authority and Experience in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters.- 4. Experiments, Experimentalists, Experimentation: Dissecting Frankenstein.- 5. Genre-Bending and Experimentation in Sensation Fiction; The Case of Mary Braddon and Ellen Wood.- 6. The Ironic Strategies of Kate Chopin's The Awakening.- 7. Realms of Resemblance: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Mai Zetterling.- 8. Neo-Victorian Experimental Narrative: Writing the Absent Objects of History in Affinity and In the Red Kitchen.- 9. 1966 and Wide Sargasso Sea: The Climate that Made Jean Rhys Legible.- 10. Troublesome reading: story and speculation in African American and African originated women's writing. Resurrecting the past, re-imagining the future.- 11. 'She's a Fine Girl': An Autotheoretical Examination of Early Experiences of Sexuality and Selfhood in Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing and Charlotte Roche's Wetlands.- 12. Helen Oyeyemi at the Vanguard of Innovation in Contemporary Black British Women's Literature.- 13. 'Daring to tilt worlds': the fiction of Irenosen Okojie.- 14. Working from the Wound: Trauma, memory and experimental writing praxis in Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?.
Feminism;Modernism;Postmodernism;Avant-garde;Aphra Behn;Jeannette Winterson;Angela Carter