Contemporary British Women Writers

List of contents

Introduction: Defending the Domestic, Re-appraising the Parochial - Emma Parker
Fiction, Feminism and Femininity: From the Eighties to the Noughties - Clare Hanson
Sex and the Single Girl: Helen Fielding, Erica Jong and Helen Gurley Brown - Imelda Whelehan
Pat Barker and the Languages of Region and Class - Mararoula Joannou
'Making Sorrow Speak': Maggie Gee's Novels - John Sears
'Wives and Workers': The Novels of Joan Riley - David Ellis
Confrontational Sites: Cultural Conflicts, Social Inequality, and Sexual Politics in the Work of Rukhsana Ahmad - Christiane Schlote
'The Nonsense About Our Irishness': Jennifer Johnston - Felicity Rosslyn
'Fiction with a Thread of Scottishness in its Truth': The Paradox of the National in A. L. Kennedy - Eluned Summers-Bremner
Lesbian Transformations of Gothic and Fairy Tale - Paulina Palmer
Demisting the Mirror: Contemporary British Women's Horror - Gina Wisker

About the author

Emma Parker

Product details

• Authors: Emma Parker
• Assisted by: Emma Parker (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2004
• EAN: 9781843840114
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-011-4
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 223 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories