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Hysterical Fictions: The 'Woman's Novel' in the Twentieth Century

Hysterical Fictions: The 'Woman's Novel' in the Twentieth Century

Hanson, C.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0333638891
ISBN13: 9780333638897
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 9 2000
Pages: 191
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The woman's novel is a term used to describe fiction which, while immensely popular among educated women readers, sits uneasily between high and low culture. Clare Hanson argues that this hybrid status reflects the ambivalent position of its authors and readers, as educated women caught between identification with the male-gendered intellectual culture and a counter-experience of female embodiment. Through six case studies, the representation of a 'mind/body problem' is explored in the fiction of Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Drabble, A.S.Byatt and Anita Brookner.

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