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essays on the fiction of girl detectives
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cornelius, Michael G. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Gregg, Melanie E. > [ed]
- Contributor
- Schuette-Hoffman, Allison
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 55 2008
- Thesaurus
- detectives, romans, fantasy, science fiction, meisjesboeken, bundel
- Description
- This collection of essays focuses on the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characterized by other famous detectives like Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, Linda Carlton, and even in contemporary media by Veronica Mars and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series. Topics include the disputed origins of Nancy Drew and the Stratemeyer Syndicate: the intertwined relationships between the Syndicate and Nancy Drew's many ghostwriters: the distinct and evolving textual identities of the Cherry Ames series: the adaptation of the traditional archetype by contemporary girl detectives like Veronica Mars, Lulu Dark, and Ingrid Levin-Hill: and the ways in which Harry Potter's Hermione Granger, while a central character in the series, is often at odds with the male-centric, fantasy-genre world of Harry Potter himself.
the critics and their canons
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Corman, Brian
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- romans, schrijvers, receptie, canon, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question of how and why this came about. Corman provides a systematic survey of the reputations of early women novelists as canons of the novel developed over a period of roughly two hundred years, and, in doing so, suggests reasons for their frequent exclusion. Women Novelists before Jane Austen challenges the view that exclusion from the canon was a simple function of gender and goes deeper to examine potential reasons why certain women writers were overlooked. In the process, it provides an overview of histories of the British novel from the beginning through to the mid twentieth century, ending with the publication of Watt's famous text. Further, Corman offers a prolegomenon to the important recovery work of the late twentieth century, in which many revised accounts of the history of the novel appeared.
technologies of identity in feminist witchcraft
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Klassen, Chris
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2008
- Thesaurus
- heksen, religie, magie, feminisme, identiteit, postkolonialisme, moederschap, holisme, godinnenbewegingen, ecofeminisme, theorieën, romans, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Storied Selves focuses on feminist Witches and their constructions of identities through the use of opposition and speculation as technologies of identity, particularly (post)colonial, maternal, and holistic identities. Through these identity formations, feminist Witches are invested in changing consciousness to create a just and sustainable world - an act that is fundamental to their practices of magic. The analysis draws from the two major North American traditions of feminist Witchcraft: Dianic and Reclaiming. Novels analyzed in the book are: Barbara Walker's Amazon, Cynthia Lamb's Bridid's Charge, and Starhawk's 'The fifth sacred thing'.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Beer, Janet > [ed]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, romans, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The essays in this Companion treat a wide range of Chopin's stories and novels, drawing her relationship with other writers, genres and literary developments, and pay close attention to the transatlantic dimension of her work.
gender, agency, and writing in late imperial China
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fong, Grace S.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, romans, poëzie, historisch, China
- Description
- This book addresses the critical question of how to approach the study of women's writing. It explores various methods of engaging in a meaningful way with a rich corpus of poetry and prose written by women of the late Ming and Qing periods, much of it rediscovered by the author in rare book collections in China and the United States. Fong argues that literate women in late imperial China used writing and reading to create literary and social communities, transcend temporal-spatial and social limitations, and represent themselves as the authors of their own life histories.
race, class, and gender in modern African-American and Jewish-American literature
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rottenberg, Catherine
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- romans, identiteit, etniciteit, sociale klasse, gender, Verenigde Staten, 1910-1919, 1920-1929
- Description
- In this book Rottenberg raises questions about what it means to be an American through an analysis of modern African-American and Jewish literature. The book illustrates how the early-twentieth-century novels of Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Anzia Yezierska, and Abraham Cahan help us to understand the specific ways that gender, class, race, and ethnicity have regulated the identity formation of African an Jewish Americans, as well as the ways these categories have helped produce and sustain social stratification in the United States more generally.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- King, Lovalerie
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- zwarte schrijvers, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, verhalen, toneel, essays, romans, biografische gegevens, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book explores Zora Neale Hurston's (1891-1960) artistic achievements and her character: her individualism, her penchant for drama, her sometimes controversial politics, her philosophical influences and her views on gender relations. The author explores Hurston's life and analyses her major works and short stories. Historical, social, political, and cultural contexts for Hurston's life and work, including her key role in the development of the Harlem Renaissance, are set out. With an overview of the reception of Hurston's work, both in her lifetime and up to the present, as well as suggestions for further reading.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kassanoff, Jennie A.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, romans, etnocentrisme, racisme, conservatisme, essentialisme, eugenetica, Verenigde Staten, 1900-1949
- Description
- Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign, and poor posed threats to what was known as the American native elite. Other threats to elite hegemony at the turn of the century were technology, and changing sexual mores. Drawing on a range of social documents, unpublished archival material, and Wharton's major novels, Kassanoff researches Wharton's role in the construction of certain basic mythologies about race and national origin, and her participation in a number of other turn-of-the century discourses - from euthanasia and tourism to pragmatism and Native Americans.
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