Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing

By Mark Llewellyn, M Llewellyn, Ann Heilmann, et al.

Book Overview

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.Col?n 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 Mich?le 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349281859
• ISBN13: 9781349281855
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"