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Queering the female writer in screen biofictions: Daphne (2007) and Shirley (2020)
The article focuses on two examples of female lives re-imagined as queer in screen biofiction: Daphne (Beavan, 2007) about Daphne de Maurier, and Shirley...
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Strange Women: Queerying Female Sexuality in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai
This is the first of two chapters which are linked in exploring queer depictions of women and men in zhiguai tales. In both cases, we consider social...
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The Limehouse Golem: Female Agency and Neo-Victorian Slumming
The neo-Victorian interest in the marginalised “Other” is the driving force behind Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, a murder mystery...
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“Miss Thing”: Prosopopeia, Aliveness, and the Female Consumer
“‘Miss Thing’: Prosopopeia, Aliveness, and the Female Consumer,” focuses on scenes of problematic animation and prosopopeia, which are especially...
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The Female Voice as a Form of Resistance: Natalia Ginzburg’s Speech Acts
Natalia Ginzburg plunges the reader into a sound-filled experience with the vibrations and musicality of her language. Her indelible distillation of...
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Sexuality and Trauma: Zhang Yixuan’s The Love that is Temporary and a Farewell Letter
In this chapter, I will conduct a comparative reading of Zhang Yixuan’s (張亦絢) The Love that is Temporary (愛的不久時) and A Farewell Letter (永別書) and...
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“The Tenderness of One Woman for Another”: Female Friendship and Revolt in the Twentieth-Century Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Although best known for her early works, “The Revolt of Mother” and “A Conflict Ended,” Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s later short fiction is even more...
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Fading Away: Women Disappearing from Literature Textbooks (How Italy Obliterates Female Intellectual Work)
In this chapter, I analyze a sample of literary textbooks used in the Italian Secondary School system, showing that while women are more represented...
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Visibility of Older Black Women in Literature: Female Ancestors in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow
Older Black women and their bodies are subjected to a process of essentializing, ‘othering,’ and/or being rendered invisible as part of the...
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Communal Pleasure in Jean Rhys’s Fiction
Laura Frost’s The problem with pleasure: Modernism and its discontents has blazed a new trail and annexed the concept of pleasure to the notion of...
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The Transatlantic Experience in the Construction of Flora Tristan’s Authorial Posture: From Pariah to Female Messiah
Flora Tristan is best known for her book of travels to Peru (Perigrinations of a Pariah). In this chapter, we aim to study the essay On the necessity...
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Gender and Identity
As a genre that weaves together the narratives of a male and a female artist, the dual artist novel offers an exceptionally promising way to explore...
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Mourning the Lost Self in Mei Ng’s Eating Chinese Food Naked and Lulu Wang’s The Farewell
The Chinese American female protagonists in Eating Chinese Food Naked (1998), written by Mei Ng, and the film The Farewell (2019), directed by Lulu...
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Elena Ferrante’s Women Intellectuals: Writing and the Paradoxical Relationship to the Mother
In this article, I explore creative labor as undertaken by Elena Ferrante’s female protagonists as an escape from domestic drudgery. Ferrante...
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‘Power and Agency’: Addressing Inequality in Contemporary Women’s Spy Fiction
Spy fiction that is written by women offers a very different content and perspective to that of men and the chapter will look to contemporary...
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Seductive Female Villains and Rhetoricians in The Monk and Zofloya; or, The Moor
Matthew Lewis’s The Monk: A Romance (1796) and Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya; or, The Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century (1806) portray female...
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“Donnerwetter, das ist famos”
This article focuses on the depiction, representation, and construction of female characters in the media of the 1930s. Sofie Schieker-Ebe’s youth...
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‘Yet Are Spain’s Maids No Race of Amazons’: Spain’s Female Warriors in Anglo-European Drama
The Peninsular War, commencing in 1808, catalyses a gradual shift in the armed woman’s reputation in Britain. A striking symbol in the 1790s of...
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“What Obligation Do I Have Toward Her?”: College Girl Friendships and Self-Actualization in Hangsaman and The Bell Jar
Natalie Waite and Esther Greenwood, college girl protagonists of Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, are ultimately unable...
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Masculinity in Conflict: Maxim Biller
This chapter examines masculinity in conflict in Die Tochter (2000; The Daughter) and, briefly, in Esra (2003) by Maxim Biller. Both novels play out...