The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen - A Critical Reading

The first study of one of the most innovative of contemporary novelists, Liz Jensen, and of the "otherworlds" in her fiction.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Egg Dancing: Paving the Way for Otherworlds in Time and Space
Ark Baby and the Return to the Nineteenth Century
Island Life: The Pure "Ustopia" of The Paper Eater/
Liz Jensen's Murder Mysteries
From Family Romance to the Detective Novel
New Rules, New Otherworlds: Jensen's "Third Wave"
Ecofiction, Rapture Fiction
The Uninvited: The Most Radically "Other" World to Date
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

HELEN E. MUNDLER is Associate Professor of English Studies at Université Paris-Est Créteil, France (UPEC).

Summary

The first study of one of the most innovative of contemporary novelists, Liz Jensen, and of the "otherworlds" in her fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Helen E Mundler, Helen E. Mundler
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781571139627
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-962-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 531 g
• Series: Studies in English & American Literature & Culture; Studies in English and America; Studies in English and American Literature and Culture; Studies in English and America; Studies in English & American Literature & Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology