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Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction = Girls' Own Stories /

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正題名/作者:	Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction/ by Jeannette King.
其他題名:	Girls' Own Stories /
作者:	King, Jeannette.
面頁冊數:	XI, 164 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Comparative Literature. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94126-0
ISBN:	9783030941260

Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction = Girls' Own Stories /
King, Jeannette.

Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical FictionGirls' Own Stories /[electronic resource] :by Jeannette King. - 1st ed. 2022. - XI, 164 p.online resource.

1. Introduction -- 2. Revisiting the Canon, Rewriting History: Sena Jeter Naslund’s Ahab’s Wife, Or The Stargazer -- 3. Domesticating the Wilderness, a Woman’s Mission: Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton -- 4. Women and an Uncivil War: Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women -- 5. Adventures of Body and Soul: Audrey Thomas, Isobel Gunn -- 6. Home and Away: Jane Urquhart, Away: A Novel -- 7. The Female Epic: Antonine Maillet, Pélagie: The Return to Acadie -- 8. Conquistador’s Moll or Mother of the Nation? Laura Esquivel, Malinche -- 9. The Female Conquistador: Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul -- 10. The Legacy of the Conquistadors: Esmeralda Santiago, Conquistadora -- 11. Conclusion. .

“This ground-breaking study introduces a challenging genre of women’s writing in which dauntless female protagonists represent a powerful alternative to the dominant traditions of the heroic male adventurer. The study is underpinned by substantive historical research. The clarity and engagement of King’s writing ensure it will be appreciated by academic and general readers alike.” —Pam Morris, independent scholar, formerly Professor of Modern Critical Studies at Liverpool John Moores University This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels introduce the neglected women of history, real and imagined, who accompanied their menfolk to the New World, and enabled its settlement or colonisation. Familiar novelists include Isabel Allende, Audrey Thomas and Jane Smiley, but this book also introduces less familiar writers who have produced richly textured and densely historical novels. In addition to putting women back into history, these writers engage with the literature of the past, including the American canon of male fiction which dominated literary history before the intervention of feminist scholars. The book begins with an introduction to the history of historical fiction and provides a theoretical, historical and geographical context for the novels themselves. Jeannette King is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Publications include: Discourses of Ageing in Fiction and Feminism (2012), The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction (2005), Women and the Word: Contemporary Women Novelists and the Bible (2000) , and Tragedy in the Victorian Novel: Theory and Practice in the Novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Henry James (1978) .

ISBN: 9783030941260

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-94126-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1065191
Comparative Literature.

LC Class. No.: PN3311-3503

Dewey Class. No.: 809.3

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