Gender, Genre & Narrative Pleasure

ISBN-13: 9780415752343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Derek Longhurst

Opis

Responding to a fundamental challenge from feminism, a primary objective of this book is to propose that all narrative and its reading are intrinsically inflected by sexual politics. Various approaches represented here demonstrate problems of confronting the gendered pleasures of reading.

Spis treści

Introduction: Reading Popular Fiction  1. West of Everything  2. The Political Unconscious in the Maternal Melodrama: Ellen Wood’s East Lynne (1861)  3. Sherlock Holmes: Adventures of an English Gentleman 1887-1894  4. The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of: Masculinity, Femininity and the Thriller  5. The Masculine Fiction of William McIlvanney  6. Rewriting the Masculine Script: The Novels of Joseph Hansen  7. The Divided Gaze: Reflections on the Political Thriller  8. Gorky Park: American Dreams in Siberia  9. Bodily Symbolism and the Fiction of Stephen King  10. Popular Writing and Feminist Intervention in Science Fiction  11. Science Fiction: The Dreams of Men

O autorze

Derek Longhurst