Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing

edited by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn

In recent years, historical fiction, particularly that by women authors, has been at the cutting edge of postmodern reconceptualizations of the past and of contemporary worlds. This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, and covering those narratives that defy categorization, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history.

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[目次]

  • Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing
  • A.Heilmann & M.Llewellyn PART ONE: TOWARDS A RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF HISTORY AND IDENTITY 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 Gender 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 PART TWO: HISTORIOGRAPHIC RE-VISIONINGS 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 PART THREE: GENERIC EXPERIMENTATIONS WITH GENDER AND GENRE Rewriting The Rover
  • Johanna M.Smith The Convent Novel and the Uses of History
  • Diana Wallace The Revenge of a Stereotype: Re-Writing 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
  • Jeanette King Breaking the Mould? Sarah Waters and the Politics of Genre
  • Mark Llewellyn Index

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書名 Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing
著作者等 Heilmann, Ann
Llewellyn, Mark
出版元 Palgrave Macmillan
刊行年月 2007
ページ数 xi, 222 p
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9780230005044
NCID BB10025891
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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