Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction write by Hsu-Ming Teo. This book was released on 2024-06-13. Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature write by Wendy Whelan-Stewart. This book was released on 2024-09-18. Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rather than rarities, literary depictions of women breastfeeding infants are more common in American literature than recognized. In some cases, readers have dismissed such portrayals as scenic background or strokes of verisimilitude. In other cases, we have failed to register them at all. By cataloging and closely reading scenes of characters breastfeeding across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this book decodes the beliefs of writers as celebrated as Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich and as current as Camille Dungy, Maggie Nelson, and Torrey Peters. It traces in these authors’ fantasies and fears the consistent and sometimes competing cultural ideologies that accrue over decades and find expression in breastfeeding scenes. Despite the different historical and cultural expectations of what a mother should be and do, twentieth and twenty-first-century women writers have consistently singled out maternal pleasure—a mother’s privileging of her own desire—as the most important theme attending scenes of breastfeeding.
The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings
The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings write by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács. This book was released on 2024-09-13. The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing and art history books influenced Wharton’s representations of architectural and natural spaces. The book demonstrates Wharton’s complex relationship to works of art historians (John Ruskin, Émile Mâle, Arthur C. Porter) and travel authors (Wolfgang Goethe, Henry Adams, Henry James) in the trajectory of her travel writing. Kovács surveys how the acknowledgment of Wharton’s sources sheds light both on the author’s model of aesthetic understanding and scenic architectural descriptions, and how the shock of the Great War changed Wharton’s travel destinations but not her symbolic view of architecture as a mediator of things past. Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture provide a new key to her travel writings.
Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing
Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing write by Alice Braun. This book was released on 2024-08-21. Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book aims to study the representation of motherhood in self-life writing by English-speaking authors. It highlights the particular issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their vocation as artists with their duties to their children. For those women who claim their right to be both mothers and writers, several cultural myths need to be taken down, chief among which is the representations that we have of what being an artist should be like, as well as the role a mother should have towards her children. This book looks at self-life writing by women from English-speaking countries to reveal the common themes and tropes which recur in texts written on the subject of motherhood, by looking at them from both a literary and a cultural perspective. It also aims to demonstrate that a new generation of women writers is taking up the subject and forging a new literary tradition.
The Anachronistic Turn
The Anachronistic Turn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anachronistic Turn write by Stephanie Russo. This book was released on 2023-12-01. The Anachronistic Turn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethink the relationship between past and present. Through an examination of literary, cinematic, and popular texts and practices, this book investigates how twenty-first century historical fictions use creative anachronisms as a way of understanding modern issues and anxieties. Drawing together a wide range of texts across all forms of historical fiction - novels, dramas, musicals, films and television - this book re-frames anachronism not as an error, but as a deliberate strategy that emphasises the fictionalising tendencies of all forms of historical writing. The book achieves this by exploring three core themes: the developing trends in the twenty-first century for creators of historical fiction to include deliberate anachronisms, such as contemporary references, music, and language; the ways in which the deliberate use of anachronism in historical fiction can allow us to rethink the relationship between past and present, and; the way that contemporary historical fiction uses anachronism to better understand modern issues and anxieties. This book will appeal to students and scholars of historical fiction, contemporary historical film and television studies, and historical theatre studies.
