Disruptive Women of Literature - Rooting for the Antiheroine

This book critically examines the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels. Gardner explores a broad range of texts to understand the antiheroine's fluidity, her liminal and abject existence, and what these suggest about cultural anxieties surrounding transgressive women.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Contextualising the Antiheroine Figure in Western Literary History
Chapter One: Archetypes, Heroes, and the Mythic Origins of the Antiheroine Figure
Chapter Two: Literary vs Television Iterations and an Ever-Evolving Definition
Chapter Three: Exploring the Antiheroine's Literary Ancestor: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Notions of Transgression
Chapter Four: Politicising the Personal: The Antiheroine and the Women's Liberation Movement
Part Two: The Gothic Antiheroine: Defying Deviancy
Chapter Five: The Female Gothic and its Fresh Façade
Chapter Six: Navigating the Antiheroine's Internalised Misogyny: The Transformative Power of Female Friendship in Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride
Chapter Seven: Engaging with the Gothic: Domestic Spaces, Female Friendships, and the Weaponisation of Motherhood in The Woman Upstairs, The Paper Wasp and Eileen
Part Three: Serial Killers, Abject Wives, and Avenging Punks: The Antiheroine's Negotiation of Patriarchal Cycles of Violence in Crime-Thriller Fiction
Chapter Eight: Rewriting the Victim Narrative and the Impact of Millennium
Chapter Nine: 'Three, and they label you a serial killer': Questions of Gender and Violence in My Sister, the Serial Killer
Chapter Ten: The Maiming of the Body: Lisbeth, Amy, and Camille
Chapter Eleven: Breaking the Cycle of Patriarchal Violence: Sisterly Rivalry, the New Femme Fatale, and Lisbeth Reborn in David Lagercrantz's Millennium
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Author

Info autore

By Eleanore Gardner

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Eleanore Gardner
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.07.2024
• EAN: 9781666951448
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-144-8
• Pagine: 236
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Gothic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: from c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form