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Rereading heterosexuality : feminism, queer theory and contemporary fiction

Title
Rereading heterosexuality : feminism, queer theory and contemporary fiction / Rachel Carroll.
Author
Carroll, Rachel.
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.

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Description
160 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Feminist literary criticism
  • Heterosexuality in literature
  • English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography (p. [149]-156) and index.
Contents
Introduction : feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality -- pt. 1. Revisiting the spinster. 'Becoming my own ghost' : spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity -- Telling tales out of school : spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal -- pt. 2. Transgressive female heterosexuality. Queering Alice, killing Lolita : feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A.M. Homes's The end of Alice -- Unauthorised reproduction : class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar -- pt. 3. Reproducing heterosexuality. 'First one thing and then the other' : rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex -- Imitations of life : cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go.
Call Number
JFE 12-5082
ISBN
  • 9780748639557
  • 0748639551
  • 9780748649082 (webready PDF) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780748649280 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780748649273 (Amazon) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2012427099
OCLC
775411786
Author
Carroll, Rachel.
Title
Rereading heterosexuality : feminism, queer theory and contemporary fiction / Rachel Carroll.
Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliography (p. [149]-156) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-5082
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