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The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fernargues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position...
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Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film
This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white...
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Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn” A Critical Companion
This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, ...
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Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec Ways of Belonging
This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary...
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Handbuch Medientheorien im 21. Jahrhundert
Das Handbuch denkt Medientheorien konsequent von den gegenwärtigen und zukünftigen Transformationen von Kultur, Technologie und Gesellschaft her. Die...
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“Don’t Fence Me In”: Interiorized Outsides and Japanese American Concentration Camps
The family separation policy that peaked in the summer of 2018 has had an unintended consequence, that of recalling Japanese internment in the 1940s....
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Cartographies of Inclusion/Exclusion and Contested Belongings in Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I Became a Latina
The rise of bordering processes within urban spaces underscores the need to re-evaluate a politics of space that reveals ethical lapses in...
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Introduction: Cicatrix Poetics: Chicana Literary Trauma Studies
Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. In this book, I aim to...
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Coyolxauhqui and Coming of Age in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
In an exploration of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984) as a survival narrative, I propose a theory of transformative narrativity, a...
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Trouble in Paradise: Pride and Prejudice as Vampire Romance
After Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005), Austen fanfic authors have turned their hand to reimagining the greatest love story of all, Pride and...
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Conclusion: An Unlikely Confluence
This conclusion considers the various ways in which Austen-vampire mashups reflect changing cultural conditions. First, they mark the collision of...
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‘Rending the Veil of Mortal Frailty’: Queen Mab (1813)
This chapter, focusing on Queen Mab (1813), arguesShelley, Percy Bysshe that Shelley’s early vision of death is informed by a distinct amalgam of...
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‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts
This introductory, contextualising chapter provides close readings of Shelley’s youthful writings on death, including ‘To St Irvyne’ (1810), ‘How...
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Introductions to the American Campus Novel
The introduction establishes “Exemption” as the fulcrum for the campus novel’s ambivalent politics. The chapter explores unique arguments regarding...
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Hardly Workin; or, the Valences of Productivism in Campus Novels
This final chapter studies the academic novel’s thorough aversion to work. Whether their protagonists are faculty or students, the novels’ plots...
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Introduction
This chapter offers an introduction to the contents and rationale behind this book. While the first three Chapters (2–4) focus on an introductory and...
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Boys Don’t Cry? Masculinity and the Politics of Emotion
This chapter analyzes the close, though often neglected, relationship between masculinity and emotion in culture and history and, in doing so, the...
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Poststructuralism and the “Death” of the White Male
This chapter focuses on the effects of poststructuralist thinking on the analysis of white heterosexual masculinity. In questioning fixed racialized...
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The Spatial Languages of Virtual Production: Critiquing Softwarization with Aesthetic Analysis
The chapter analyses the emergent practice of virtual production and the generation of in-camera visual effects (ICVFX), a process currently...