Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing

By: Ann Heilmann (Editor), Mark Llewellyn (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 May 2007 | Edition Number 1

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In recent years, historical fiction, particularly that by women authors, has been at the cutting edge of postmodern reconceptualizations of the past and of contemporary worlds. This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, and covering those narratives that defy categorization, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history.

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'This important collection of essays catches a current literary (and literary critical) moment, engaging directly with the steady and seemingly continuing interest in the past shown by contemporary women writers of fiction. In particular, it offers the contemporary literary critic a series of authoritative guides on how to straddle historical periods whilst remaining firmly rooted in the twenty-first century - this is a much needed volume.' - Lucie Armitt, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Salford, UK

'The chapters are wide-ranging in their thematic and historical scope, traversing various centuries, genres, and critical frameworks... this volume makes a timely contribution to a current and dynamic field of enquiry.' - Rebecca Munford, Contemporary Women's Writing

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on the Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Towards a Reconceptualization of History and Identity
The Witch, the Puritan and the Prophet: Historical Novels and Seventeenth-Century History	p. 15
History as Story in Angela Carter's American Ghosts and Old World Wonders	p. 30
Falling Off the Edge of the World: History and Gender in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic	p. 45
Time, Space and (Her)Story in the Fiction of Eva Figes	p. 59
From Demidenko to Darville: Behind the Scenes of a Literary Carnival	p. 73
Historiographic Re-visionings
Historicizing Witchcraft Throughout the Ages: Joanna Baillie and Caryl Churchill	p. 89
The Benefits of Watching the Circus Animals Desert: Myth, Yeats and Patriarchy in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus	p. 102
Passion and Possession as Alternatives to 'Cosmic Masculinity' in 'Herstorical Romances'	p. 116
Michele Roberts: Histories and Herstories in In the Red Kitchen, Fair Exchange and The Looking Glass	p. 133
Generic Experimentations with Gender and Genre
Rewriting The Rover	p. 149
The Convent Novel and the Uses of History	p. 158
The Revenge of the Stereotype: Rewriting the History of the Gothic Heroine in Alice Thompson's Justine	p. 172
The Resisting Writer: Revisiting the Canon, Rewriting History in Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer	p. 182
Breaking the Mould? Sarah Waters and the Politics of Genre	p. 195
Index	p. 211
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