Research Catalog

Title

Outlander's Sassenachs : essays on gender, race, orientation and the other in the novels and television series / edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

Frankel, Valerie Estelle

Description

vi, 164 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Both show and books address many issues most series shy away from--breast feeding, abortion, birth control. As the heroes encounter all the complications of a marriage, along with life in their wider community, they make discoveries about gender that resonate with all their fans here in the modern world.]"--

Subject

• Gabaldon, Diana
• Gabaldon, Diana > Criticism and interpretation
• Outlander novels (Gabaldon, Diana)
• Sex role in literature
• Sex role on television
• Race in literature
• Race on television
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Identity (Psychology) on television

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Contains bibliographic records and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: Questions of Diversity -- Privilege and Pity: Jamie on Slavery, Racism and Disability / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Culloden and Wounded Knee: Genocide, Identity and Cultural Survival / Sandi Solis -- Claire Kens Well: Appropriation and Itenerant Performance in Outlander Onscreen / Elizabeth Elaine Tavares -- Part II: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity -- Gazing at Jamie Fraser / Araceli R. Lopez -- Jamie's "Others": Complicating Masculinity and Heroism Through His Foils / Jennifer Phillips -- Being Lord John: Homosexual Life in Georgian London / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Part III: Women's Choice for Time Travelers -- Men, Women and Birth Control in the Early Outlander Books / Nicole M. DuPlessis -- The Beaton: Healing as Empowerment for Claire Beauchamp / Sarah Stegall -- Part IV: Claire as Feminist, Postfeminist, Anti-Feminist -- Reviewing Linear Time: History Repeating All Over Again (Now, Against You) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo G.A. Lando -- The Way We Were: Nostalgia, Romance and Anti-Feminism / Victoria Kennedy -- Outlander from Book to Screen: Power in Gender and Orientation / Yvonne D. Leach.

ISBN

• 9781476664248
• 1476664242

OCLC

• 952390058
• SCSB-10723627

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library