It's My Party : Reading Twentieth Century Women's Writing

Wisker, Gina

Pluto Press（1994/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780745306797
• DDC分類 809.892827

Full Description

This volume focuses on the writing, reading and reception of "popular" fiction by women in the 20th century. The essays survey the myriad forms of women's fiction - including the work of Dorothy Sayers, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Barbara Cartland, Angela Carter, Doris Lessing and Judy Blume.

Contents

Part 1 Sexuality and representation. Authenticating romantic fiction - Lady Chatterley's daughter; it's my party - American bestsellers of the 1970s; Jean Rhys - race, gender and history; acts of defiance - celebrating lesbians; weaving our own web - demythologizing/remythologizing and magic in the work of contemporary women writers; from vases to teasets - screening women's writing. Part 2 Gender and genre. Love and marriage in the works of Winifred Holtby; croquet and serial killers - feminism and Agatha Christie; life on the streets - Pat Barker's realist fictions; radical Taoism - Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction.