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Overview
Argues that contemporary female Gothic novels of death breathe new life into feminist debates about victimization, essentialism, agency, and the body.Synopsis
Meyers (English, Southwestern U.) explores femicidal plots (in which women are killed or fear for their lives) in the works of authors such as Angela Carter, Muriel Sparks, Joyce Carol Oates, and Margaret Atwood, to argue that these modern Gothic novels, as well as actual cases of female murder like the Montreal Massacre, depict feminist debates on victimization more fully than the sometimes watered down or overused language of theoretical feminism.
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Book Details
Published
October 1, 2001
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Pages
223
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791451519