Feminism and Women's Writing: An Introduction - Softcover

Catherine Riley; Lynne Pearce

 
9781474415606: Feminism and Women's Writing: An Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474415601 ISBN 13: 9781474415606
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Outlines the key feminist debates on British women's fiction since the 'second wave' and grounds them in examples of women's writingThis book introduces you clearly and succinctly to the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content of British women's fiction and non-fiction writing. The Introduction sets out the critical background and the main feminist critical approaches to literature. This is followed by 5 chapters which outline feminist engagements with the canon, gender, the body, sexual difference and ethnicity to demonstrate the ways in which feminist ideas have affected the 'content' of women's literature. The next 5 chapters examine types of fiction writing: romance, crime, science fiction, life-writing and historical fiction, to show the effect of feminist ideas on the 'form' of women's literature.The text also provides a wide range of illuminating case studies which include: Virago Modern Classics, The Women Prize for Fiction, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'Herland', Angela Carter's 'The Passion of New Eve', Margaret Attwood's 'The Edible Woman', Lucy Ellmann's 'Sweet Desserts', Barbie dolls, French feminism and sexuality, trans identities, feminist publishing and ethnicity, black and minority ethnic women's writing, Zadie Smith's novels, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved', Eimear McBride's 'A Girl is a Half Formed Thing', Val McDermid and lesbian crime writing, Ruth Rendell and the invention of the 'whydunit', Margaret Atwood's 'Maddaddam' sci fi trilogy, Jeanette Winterson's 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit' and 'The Passion', Pat Barker's 'Regeneration' trilogy and Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up The Bodies'. Each chapter ends with a list of primary texts and recommended further reading.Key FeaturesProvides a clear overview of changing feminist debates and terms in the 20th and 21st centuriesShows the changing form of women's fiction and non-fiction during this periodAssesses the ways in which literary, political and mainstream cultures, as well as the book industry, have impacted on the work and ideas of female writersIncludes a wide range of case studies as well as recommended further reading and a list of primary texts with each chapter

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About the Author

Catherine Riley is currently Head of Communications at the Women's Equality Party, the UK's first feminist political party. She is a feminist historian and writer, and an expert on contemporary feminist publishing in the UK. She has taught English Literature and Gender Studies at Lancaster and Northumbria Universities and Birkbeck College in London, where she completed her doctoral thesis on the feminist publisher Virago. Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary Theory and Women's Writing at the University of Lancaster. She has published widely in the field of literary and cultural theory

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'This book is brilliantly conceived; it is really doing something new, something that is timely and really is needed. It is comprehensively and intelligently organised and very engagingly written.' Patricia Wough, Durham University Outlines the key feminist debates on women's fiction since the 'second wave' This book clearly and succinctly introduces the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content of women's fiction and non-fiction writing. The Introduction sets out the critical background and the main feminist critical approaches to literature. This is followed by 5 chapters which outline feminist engagements with the canon, gender, the body, sexual difference and ethnicity to demonstrate the ways in which feminist ideas have affected the content of women's literature. The next 5 chapters examine types of fiction writing: romance, crime, science fiction, life-writing and historical fiction, to show the effect of feminist ideas on the form of women's literature. Key Features - Provides a clear overview of changing feminist debates and terms in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. - Each chapter ends with a list of primary texts and recommended further reading. - Assesses the ways in which literary, political and mainstream cultures, as well as the book industry, have impacted on the work and ideas of female writers. - Includes a wide range of case studies, including: Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, Margaret Attwood's The Edible Woman, trans identities, feminist publishing and ethnicity, Zadie Smith's novels, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, Val McDermid and lesbian crime writing, and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. Catherine Riley is a feminist historian and writer, and an expert on contemporary feminist publishing in the UK. She has taught English Literature and Gender Studies at Lancaster and Northumbria Universities as well as at Birkbeck College in London. Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary Theory and Women's Writing at the University of Lancaster. Cover image: (c) GettyImages.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2920-7 [PPC] ISBN 978-1-4744-2921-4 [cover] Barcode

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'This book is brilliantly conceived; it is really doing something new, something that is timely and really is needed. It is comprehensively and intelligently organised and very engagingly written.' Patricia Wough, Durham University Outlines the key feminist debates on women's fiction since the 'second wave' This book clearly and succinctly introduces the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content of women's fiction and non-fiction writing. The Introduction sets out the critical background and the main feminist critical approaches to literature. This is followed by 5 chapters which outline feminist engagements with the canon, gender, the body, sexual difference and ethnicity to demonstrate the ways in which feminist ideas have affected the content of women's literature. The next 5 chapters examine types of fiction writing: romance, crime, science fiction, life-writing and historical fiction, to show the effect of feminist ideas on the form of women's literature. Key Features -Provides a clear overview of changing feminist debates and terms in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. -Each chapter ends with a list of primary texts and recommended further reading. -Assesses the ways in which literary, political and mainstream cultures, as well as the book industry, have impacted on the work and ideas of female writers. -Includes a wide range of case studies, including: Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, Margaret Attwood's The Edible Woman, trans identities, feminist publishing and ethnicity, Zadie Smith's novels, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, Val McDermid and lesbian crime writing, and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. Catherine Riley is a feminist historian and writer, and an expert on contemporary feminist publishing in the UK. She has taught English Literature and Gender Studies at Lancaster and Northumbria Universities as well as at Birkbeck College in London. Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary Theory and Women's Writing at the University of Lancaster. Cover image: (c) GettyImages.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2920-7 [PPC] ISBN 978-1-4744-2921-4 [cover] Barcode

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1474415601
ISBN 13 
9781474415606
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
224

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