Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel

Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel
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Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9783030482879
ISBN-13 : 3030482871
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Book Synopsis Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel by : Kathleen Renk

Download or read book Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel written by Kathleen Renk and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?


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