| Description |
xv, 224 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Killing Daddy -- I. Challenging the classics -- 1. Reading genesis -- 2. The suggestive spectacle: Queer passions in Charlotte Bronte's Villette and Murial Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -- 3. Fictions and histories: On Hella Haasse's Een Nieuwer Testament and Tolstoy's War and Peace -- 4. Hoffmann's uncanny replicant: Freud, Frankenstein and the Sandman -- II. Sexuality and contemporary women's writing -- 5. Reimagining the fairy tales : Angela Carter's Bloody Chamber -- 6. Queer gothic : Angela Carter and the lost narratives of sexual subversion -- 7. Heterosexuality: fictional agendas: Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman and Life Before Man, and Jenny Diski Nothing Natural -- 8. 'The long line of blood/and family ties': Grace Nichols and The Long-Memoried Woman -- III. Making writing -- 9. Post gender: Jurassic feminism meets queer politics -- 10. On narrative structures in cntemporary fiction: J.M. Coetzee Disgrace and Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist's Tale -- 11. On the impossibility of making writing: Mrs Arbuthnot, Mrs Lewes and Mrs Woolf -- 12. Writing on the wall |
| Summary |
In a varied selection of essays, Patricia Duncker takes on the classics of European literature - from the sexual politics of Milton, to an illuminating reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace as historical fiction. She also discusses contemporary women's writing, including Angela Carter's 'queer gothic', nationalism and Caribbean women's writing, and the politics of heterosexuality in the work of Margaret Atwood and Jenny Diski |
| Notes |
Essays |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
European literature -- History and criticism.
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European literature -- Women authors.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| ISBN |
0863584314 |
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0863584322 (paperback) |
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