George Eliot's reception as a writer has been checkered from the start. Prejudice followed the revelation of her real identity as a woman, and she suffered from critical neglect at the start of the twentieth century before a postwar renaissance of interest established her as one of the most powerful of British novelists.
Focusing on three of Eliot's most influential and widely read "Midlands" novels, this guide traces recent critical interpretations of her work as well as revisiting some of the perspectives offered by original reviewers and early critics. Class, gender, and ideology all...
George Eliot's reception as a writer has been checkered from the start. Prejudice followed the revelation of her real identity as a woman, and she suf...
Focusing on three of Eliot's most influential and widely read novels, this guide traces recent critical interpretations of her work as well as revisiting some of the perspectives offered by original reviewers and early critics.
Focusing on three of Eliot's most influential and widely read novels, this guide traces recent critical interpretations of her work as well as revisit...
This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. The study is based upon the work of fifteen different writers and includes novels by Allende, Atwood, Carter, Head, Morrison, Weldon, Winterson and Wittig.
This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. The study is based upon the wor...
This is a series of introductory books about different types of writing. One strand of the series will focus on genres such as Science Fiction, Horror, Romance, and Crime. The other strand will focus on movements or styles often associated with historical and cultural locations - Postcolonial, Native American, Scottish, Irish, American Gothic.
These introductions all share the same nine-part structure:
1.A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements 2.A timeline of historical developments 3.Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading 4.Detailed...
This is a series of introductory books about different types of writing. One strand of the series will focus on genres such as Science Fiction, Hor...
Continuing the University of Wales Press s acclaimed series of explorations of the Gothic and its legacy, "Twentieth-Century Gothic" focuses on the continuing presence of the gothic in the long twentieth century, from "The Turn of the Screw" to Sarah Waters s "The Little Stranger," with looks along the way at the work of Clive Barker, Angela Carter, Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and more. Addressing the question of why we are fascinated by ghosts, demons, and monsters of all sorts, despite the professed rationality of our society, Armitt shows how such stories of these supernatural...
Continuing the University of Wales Press s acclaimed series of explorations of the Gothic and its legacy, "Twentieth-Century Gothic" focuses on the...
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics? What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry? These are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre. But the undoubted existence of a recent surge of women's interest in science fiction is by no means the full...
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing n...
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics? What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry? These are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre. But the undoubted existence of a recent surge of women's interest in science fiction is by no means the full...
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing n...
This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. The study is based upon the work of fifteen different writers and includes novels by Allende, Atwood, Carter, Head, Morrison, Weldon, Winterson and Wittig.
This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. The study is based upon the wor...
