Contemporary women novelists
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Contemporary women novelists
（Modern fiction）
E. Arnold, 1989 , Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1989
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Includes bibliography and index
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Description
Although women have been writing novels for more than two centuries now, they are probably more active as writers of fiction today than they have ever been before. The 10 novelists considered in this book have had writing careers that largely coincide with a period of intensive argument about women and their roles in society in the last 20 years. Between them they produce a wide spectrum of fictional responses to a changing world.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: the background to contemporary feminism
- contemporary feminism - the woman's view of the world
- contemporary feminism and sexuality
- feminism and literature
- women's changing experience
- contemporary women's writing. Part 2 Versions of the real: contemporary uses of realism
- Margaret Drabble - modifications of realism - "The Waterfall" and "The Realms of Gold"
- Drabble - novelist of women's experience
- Drabble and feminism - "The Middle Ground"
- Anita Brookner - "Providence" and "Hotel du Lac"
- A.S.Byatt - "Still Life". Part 3 Fictions and sexual politics: personal and political
- Zoe Fairbairns - a feminist dystopia - "Benefits"
- Pat Barker - modified realism - "Union Street" and "The Century's Daughter"
- Fay Weldon - feminist satire - "Down among the Women"
- Weldon - novels of the 1980s - "Puffball" to "Leader of the Band". Part 4 Myths, dreams and nightmares: beyond everyday reality
- Angela Carter's early work - "The Magic Toyshop"
- Carter's rewriting of fairy-tales - "The Bloody Chamber"
- Carter's female comedy - "Nights at the Circus"
- Emma Tennant - "The Bad Sister" and "Queen of Stones"
- Sara Maitland - "Virgin Territory"
- Alice Thomas Ellis - "The Sin Eater" and "The Birds of the Air".
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