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Contemporary women novelists

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Contemporary Literature and Criticism American and British Literature Analysis Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

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Part 1 Introduction: the background to contemporary feminism contemporary feminism - the woman's view of the world contemporary feminism and sexuality feminism and literature women's changing experience contemporary women's writing. Part 2 Versions of the real: contemporary uses of realism Margaret Drabble - modifications of realism - The Waterfall and The Realms of Gold Drabble - novelist of women's experience Drabble and feminism - The Middle Ground Anita Brookner - Providence and Hotel du Lac A.S.Byatt - Still Life. Part 3 Fictions and sexual politics: personal and political Zoe Fairbairns - a feminist dystopia - Benefits Pat Barker - modified realism - Union Street and The Century's Daughter Fay Weldon - feminist satire - Down among the Women Weldon - novels of the 1980s - Puffball to Leader of the Band. Part 4 Myths, dreams and nightmares: beyond everyday reality Angela Carter's early work - The Magic Toyshop Carter's rewriting of fairy-tales - The Bloody Chamber Carter's female comedy - Nights at the Circus Emma Tennant - The Bad Sister and Queen of Stones Sara Maitland - Virgin Territory Alice Thomas Ellis - The Sin Eater and The Birds of the Air.

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