Feminist Metafiction And The Evolution Of The British Novel
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Author | : Joan Douglas Peters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813024318 |
Peters' groundbreaking study focuses on women as narrators in six British novels to show that the strategic use of women's narratives was intrinsic to the formation of the Western novel as a literary form and in fact has come to define what we now understand as novelistic even in non-canonical works. The book makes an original contribution to the scholarship of the history of British fiction by breaking away from the widely held critical position that women's narratives were outside and against the history of the genre. In her analysis of dual-voiced works from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, Peters shows that women's metafictional discourse within the novel did not emerge as a late-twentieth-century reaction to the canon but has been present from the novel's beginnings. She also introduces a new level of academic discourse to feminist narratology as an approach to literary works by focusing attention on the dynamics of structure at the level of text, separate from the fiction. Peters' selection of novels by both male and female authors is a distinguishing feature of the book; the result is a rich and original description of how gender and genre interact in
Author | : K. Cooper |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137283386 |
From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.
Author | : Tabitha Sparks |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2022-11-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081394872X |
Critics agree in the abstract that "metafiction" refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, but metafiction has been largely associated with the postmodern era. In this innovative new book Tabitha Sparks identifies a sustained pattern of metafiction in the Victorian novel that illuminates the art and intentions of its female practitioners. From the mid-nineteenth century through the fin de siècle, novels by Victorian women such as Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, Eliza Lynn Linton, and several New Women authors share a common but underexamined trope: the fictional characterization of the woman novelist or autobiographer. Victorian Metafiction reveals how these novels systemically dispute the assumptions that women wrote primarily about their emotions or were restricted to trivial, sentimental plots. Countering an established tradition that has read novels by women writers as heavily autobiographical and confessional, Sparks identifies the literary technique of metafiction in numerous novels by women writers and argues that women used metafictional self-consciousness to draw the reader’s attention to the book and not the novelist. By dislodging the narrative from these cultural prescriptions, Victorian Metafiction effectively argues how these women novelists presented the business and art of writing as the subject of the novel and wrote metafiction in order to establish their artistic integrity and professional authority.
Author | : Mary Eagleton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137294817 |
This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.
Author | : Firdous Azim |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134866070 |
In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel. Whereas previous studies have emphasized the universality of the coherent and consistent subject which found expression in the novels of the eighteenth century, Azim demonstrtes how certain categories: women and people of colour, were silenced and excluded. The Colonial Rise of the Novel makes an important and provocative contribution to post-colonial and feminist criticism. It will be essential reading for all teachers and students of English literature, women's studies, and post-colonial criticism.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2005-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781551114514 |
Born to a petty thief in London’s notorious Newgate prison and determined to make her way in a rapacious and materialistic society, Moll Flanders recounts the “fortunes and misfortunes” of her turbulent life in this 1722 novel. Though Moll Flanders was shaped by the conventions of criminal biography, Defoe also drew on other literary traditions and his own rich background to create a remarkably original—and still controversial—work. In addition to a critical introduction and substantial footnotes, this Broadview edition provides a wide range of writings by Defoe as well as contemporary responses to Moll Flanders. Other appendices include a selection of eighteenth-century writings on crime, prisons, and the Virginia colony.
Author | : Lorena L. Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rachel A. Kent |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015-10-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137522917 |
Dramatically refreshing the age-old debate about the novel's origins and purpose, Kent traces the origin of the modern novel to a late medieval fascination with the wounded, and often eroticized, body of Christ. A wide range of texts help to illustrate this discovery, ranging from medieval 'Pietàs' to Thomas Hardy to contemporary literary theory.
Author | : Paula Rabinowitz |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807843321 |
This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges th
Author | : David Herman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134458401 |
The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with time, process, and change. However, the very predominance of narrative as a focus of interest across multiple disciplines makes it imperative for scholars, teachers, and students to have access to a comprehensive reference resource.