Fay Weldon, feminism, and British culture : challenging cultural and literary conventions

Fay Weldon, feminism, and British culture : challenging cultural and literary conventions / Mara E. Reisman.

"This book offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon's major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon's fiction engages with controversial moral and social issues. Mara Reisman provides in-depth examination of the relationship between Weldon's fictio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reisman, Mara E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Subjects:
Weldon, Fay > Criticism and interpretation.
Weldon, Fay
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Feminism.
feminism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Feminism
Manners and customs
Sex role in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
England > Social life and customs.
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Feminism, women's fiction, and The Fat Woman's Joke
  • Articulating the concerns of women's liberation
  • Complicating a feminist reading of Fay Weldon's fiction
  • Ethics and morality: Fay Weldon as a social critic
  • Fay Weldon's public persona
  • Art, economics, and the politics of purity
  • Challenging narrative truth.

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