Title Women writing the neo-Victorian novel : erotic "Victorians" / Kathleen Renk

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Chapter 1 "The Female Artist's Erotic Gaze in Neo-Victorian Fiction" -- Chapter 2 "Eros and the Woman Writer: Conversing with the Spirits of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, and E. Nesbit" -- Chapter 3 Female Rogues and Gender Outlaws in the Neo-Victorian Novel -- Chapter Four "In Other Dark Rooms: Eros and the Woman Spiritualist" -- Chapter Five "Voyages Out: Postcolonial Desires and the Female Victorian Adventurer" Summary Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic "Victorians" focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers, such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Margaret Atwood, and Ahdaf Soueif, among others, and their attempts to re-envision the erotic. Kathleen Renks study analyzes the phenomenon of neo-Victorian fiction and its relationship to contemporary culture, specifically focusing on women writers and the ways in which the erotic is conceived in neo-Victorian fiction, and how this re-conception relates to the interests of contemporary feminism. Renk argues that in their re-envisioning of the Victorian novel, these women writers highlight classical concepts of erôs, and, in addition, they gravitate toward Audre Lordes idea that the erotic is not "plasticized sensation" but is "the lifeforce of women, [it is] creative energy empowered Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2020) Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century Erotic literature, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism Novela inglesa -- s.19 -- Historia y crítica Literatura erótica -- s.19 Mujeres escritoras inglesas -- s.19. English fiction English fiction -- Women authors Literature and history Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030482879 3030482871

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