This book critically examines the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels. Gardner explores a broad range of texts to understand the antiheroine's fluidity, her liminal and abject existence, and what these suggest about cultural anxieties surrounding transgressive women.
This book critically examines the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels. Gardner explores a broad range of texts to understand the antiheroine's fluidity, her liminal and abject existence, and what these suggest about cultural anxieties surrounding transgressive women.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Contextualising the Antiheroine Figure in Western Literary History Chapter One: Archetypes, Heroes, and the Mythic Origins of the Antiheroine Figure Chapter Two: Literary vs Television Iterations and an Ever-Evolving Definition Chapter Three: Exploring the Antiheroine's Literary Ancestor: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Notions of Transgression Chapter Four: Politicising the Personal: The Antiheroine and the Women's Liberation Movement Part Two: The Gothic Antiheroine: Defying Deviancy Chapter Five: The Female Gothic and its Fresh Façade Chapter Six: Navigating the Antiheroine's Internalised Misogyny: The Transformative Power of Female Friendship in Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride Chapter Seven: Engaging with the Gothic: Domestic Spaces, Female Friendships, and the Weaponisation of Motherhood in The Woman Upstairs, The Paper Wasp and Eileen Part Three: Serial Killers, Abject Wives, and Avenging Punks: The Antiheroine's Negotiation of Patriarchal Cycles of Violence in Crime-Thriller Fiction Chapter Eight: Rewriting the Victim Narrative and the Impact of Millennium Chapter Nine: 'Three, and they label you a serial killer': Questions of Gender and Violence in My Sister, the Serial Killer Chapter Ten: The Maiming of the Body: Lisbeth, Amy, and Camille Chapter Eleven: Breaking the Cycle of Patriarchal Violence: Sisterly Rivalry, the New Femme Fatale, and Lisbeth Reborn in David Lagercrantz's Millennium Conclusion Works Cited About the Author
Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Contextualising the Antiheroine Figure in Western Literary History Chapter One: Archetypes, Heroes, and the Mythic Origins of the Antiheroine Figure Chapter Two: Literary vs Television Iterations and an Ever-Evolving Definition Chapter Three: Exploring the Antiheroine's Literary Ancestor: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Notions of Transgression Chapter Four: Politicising the Personal: The Antiheroine and the Women's Liberation Movement Part Two: The Gothic Antiheroine: Defying Deviancy Chapter Five: The Female Gothic and its Fresh Façade Chapter Six: Navigating the Antiheroine's Internalised Misogyny: The Transformative Power of Female Friendship in Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride Chapter Seven: Engaging with the Gothic: Domestic Spaces, Female Friendships, and the Weaponisation of Motherhood in The Woman Upstairs, The Paper Wasp and Eileen Part Three: Serial Killers, Abject Wives, and Avenging Punks: The Antiheroine's Negotiation of Patriarchal Cycles of Violence in Crime-Thriller Fiction Chapter Eight: Rewriting the Victim Narrative and the Impact of Millennium Chapter Nine: 'Three, and they label you a serial killer': Questions of Gender and Violence in My Sister, the Serial Killer Chapter Ten: The Maiming of the Body: Lisbeth, Amy, and Camille Chapter Eleven: Breaking the Cycle of Patriarchal Violence: Sisterly Rivalry, the New Femme Fatale, and Lisbeth Reborn in David Lagercrantz's Millennium Conclusion Works Cited About the Author
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