Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic

by Lucie Armitt

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This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. Some of the issues addressed include: the importance of the cyborg and the spectre to critical and fictional discourses of gender; the interface between the grotesque and contemporary readings of feminist utopianism; the growing similarity between late twentieth-century gothicism and the magical real. The study is based upon the work...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312226667

ISBN13:9780312226664

Release Date:July 2000

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:257 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Social Science Social Sciences

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