Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women

Echoes of the Past

AvMiriam Borham-Puyal

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, as well as in contemporary rewritings, such as novels, films, television shows, videogames, and graphic novels. In particular, the volume focuses on vampires, prostitutes, quixotes, and detectives as examples of new women who inhabit the margins of society and populate its narratives. Therefore, it places together for the first time four important liminal identities, while it explores a relevant corpus that comprises four centuries and several countries. Its diachronic, transnational, and comparative approach emphasizes the representation across time and space of female sexuality, gender violence, and women’s rights, also employing a liminal stance in its literary analysis: facing the past in order to understand the present. By underlining the dialogue between past and present this monograph contributes to contemporary debates on the representation of women and the construction of femininity as opposed to hegemonic masculinity, for it exposes the line of thought that has brought us to the present moment, hence, challenging assumed stereotypes and narratives. In addition, by using popular narratives and media, the present work highlights the value of literature, films, or alternative forms of storytelling to understand how women’s place in society, their voice, and their presence have been and are still negotiated in spaces of visibility, agency, and power.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Among the Victorians and Modernists
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032175904

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Miriam Borham-Puyal lectures at the English Department of the University of Salamanca. She is the author of the monograph Quijotes con enaguas. Encrucijada de géneros en el siglo XVIII británico (2015) and has published extensively on British quixotes. She has also authored pieces on women writers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, including Jane Austen, Jane Barker, Mary Brunton, Mary Hays, Charlotte Lennox, Hannah More, Scarlett Thomas, and Mary Wollstonecraft. As part of her research in Digital Humanities, she has published articles on female characters in videogames and women writers online. She is the editor of a volume on rewritings of Frankenstein (2018), which places particular emphasis on film, television, videogames, and e-lit.

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Winner of the 2021 "Enrique García Díez" Award for research in Literary Studies in English (AEDEAN)

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Liminality, Feminocentric Narratives, and the Polytemporality of the New Woman Liminality and Feminocentric Narratives Polytemporal (Feminist) History and the Trace Liminal Women and Popular Narratives2. Female Vampires: On the Threshold of Time, Space, and GenderF(r)iends on the Threshold: Let the Right One InM/Others and Survivors through Time: A Vampire Story and ByzantiumEternity, Liminal Space, and the Outsider: Only Lovers Left AliveEmpowering Liminal Women: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night3. Good and Bad, Private and Public: Prostitution as Liminal IdentityBetween Monsters and Machines: FrankenhookerThe Freedom of the Prostitute or the Silence of the Wife: Dangerous BeautyNeo-Victorian Rewritings: Class, Gender, and Commodities in SlammerkinSex and Power from the Eighteenth Century to Television: Harlots4. Between Madness and Rebellion: Rewriting the Female QuixoteColoring Reality with Romance: from Bridget Jones’s Diary to Crazy Ex-GirlfriendEscaping a Harrowing (Patriarchal) Reality: Pan’s Labyrinth and Sucker PunchIdealistic Individuals in a Fallen World: Amélie and The Bookshop5. To Be and Not to Be: Female Detectives between Old and New WomenResurrecting Kate Warne: The Pinkertons and My Favorite Thing Is MonstersSherlock’s Sisters at the Turn of the Century: Houdini & Doyle and Phryne FisherInvisible Women: Reclaiming the Spy in The Bletchley CirclePast in the Present, the Gothic in the Noir: Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy