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Hysterical fictions : the 'woman's novel' in the twentieth century
- Title
- Hysterical fictions : the 'woman's novel' in the twentieth century / Clare Hanson.
- Author
- Hanson, Clare.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR888.F45 H36 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 191 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The woman's novel is a term used to describe fiction which, while immensely popular among educated women readers, sits uneasily between high and low culture. Clare Hanson argues that this hybrid status reflects the ambivalent position of its authors and readers as educated women caught between identification with a male-gendered intellectual culture and a counter-experience of culturally derogated female embodiment.
- Using a variety of philosophical perspectives, she analyses the gendering of thought and culture and the complex ways in which the female body is coded as 'outside' or as preceding culture."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Sex role in literature
- English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Human body in literature
- Mind and body in literature
- Women > Books and reading
- Femininity in literature
- Women in literature
- Feminist fiction, English > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-187) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Rosamond Lehmann and the Woman in Love -- 2. Elizabeth Bowen: 'Becoming-Woman' -- 3. Elizabeth Taylor's Speaking Bodies -- 4. Margaret Drabble: Natality, Labour, Work and Action -- 5. A. S. Byatt's Gardens -- 6. Anita Brookner: The Principle of Hope.
- ISBN
- 0312235291
- LCCN
- 00033344
- OCLC
- ocm44046809
- SCSB-3986038
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries