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The essays brought together in this book span the last quarter century of Cora Kaplan's imaginative thinking and writing about the interrelated questions of gender, race, class and empire. They include work on feminism's cultural politics, women's writing on race and empire in Britain in the long nineteenth century, the reimagining of gender in modern crime writing and popular film, and the political/personal work of memoir. Linked by an historical approach to literary and cultural works, all these pieces pay keen attention to the busy crossroads of wider political, social and cultural traffic at the time of a work's first appearance. These essays chart the changing agendas in contemporary literary studies with particular reference to the shifting profile of modern feminism, postcolonial history and theory, and the increasingly rapid circulation of narrative tropes across a variety of new and traditional media sites and settings.
Contents
Introduction
Sources and Acknowledgments
Part I. Feminist Afterlives
1. Mary Wollstonecraft's Ghosts (2002)
Part II. Race, Slavery and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
2. 'A Heterogenous Thing': Female Childhood and the Rise of Racial Thinking in Victorian Britain (1996)
3. Imagining Empire: History, Fantasy and Literature (2006)
4. Slavery, Race, History: Harriet Martineau's Ethnographic Imagination (2010)
Part III. Crimes and Misdemeanours
5. Dirty Harriet/Blue Steel: Feminist Theory Goes to Hollywood (1993)
6. Josephine Tey and Her Descendants: Conservative Modernity and the Female Crime Novel (2011)
7. Jane Austen, Modern Masculinity, and Crime (2004)
8. The Death of the Working-Class Hero (2004)
Part IV. Past and Present Passions
9. Introduction: Salt and Bitter and Good: Three Centuries of English and American Women Poets (1975) [6500]
10. Witchcraft: A Child's Story (1996)
11. The Golden Notebook and Me: A Reprise (2010)
12. 'A Cavern Opened in My Mind': The Poetics of Homosexuality and the Politics of Masculinity in James Baldwin
