Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel

Erotic "Victorians"
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-48286-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 393 g

Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic “Victorians” focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Margaret Atwood, and Ahdaf Soueif, among others, and their attempts to re-envision the erotic. Kathleen Renk argues that women writers of the neo-Victorian novel are far more philosophical in their approach to representing the erotic than male writers and draw more heavily on Victorian conventions that would proscribe the graphic depiction of sexual acts, thus leaving more to the reader’s imagination. This book addresses the following questions: Why are women writers drawn to the neo-Victorian genre and what does this reveal about the state of contemporary feminism? How do classical and contemporary forms of the erotic play into the ways in which women writers address the Victorian “woman question”?  How exactly is the erotic used to underscore women’s creative potential?

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renk, Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Feministische Philosophie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 “The Female Artist’s Erotic Gaze in Neo-Victorian Fiction”.- Chapter 2 “Eros and the Woman Writer: Conversing with the Spirits of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, and E. Nesbit”.- Chapter 3 Female Rogues and Gender Outlaws in the Neo-Victorian Novel.- Chapter Four “In Other Dark Rooms:  Eros and the Woman Spiritualist”.- Chapter Five “Voyages Out: Postcolonial Desires and the Female Victorian Adventurer”.

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Renk is Professor Emerita of Literature at Northern Illinois University, USA, and is the author of Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature (2012), Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts: Women’s Writing and Decolonization (1999) and numerous scholarly essays.