Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic

by Lucie Armitt

Book Overview

This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. Some of the issues addressed include: the importance of the cyborg and the spectre to critical and fictional discourses of gender; the interface between the grotesque and contemporary readings of feminist utopianism; the growing similarity between late twentieth-century gothicism and the magical real. The study is based upon the work...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312226667
• ISBN13: 9780312226664
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"