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Masquerading as a man, seeking adventure, going to war or to sea for love and glory, the transvestite heroine flourished in all kinds of literature, especially ballads, from the Renaissance to the Victorian age. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 identifies this heroine and her significance as a figure in folklore, and as a representative of popular culture, prompting important reevaluations of gender and sexuality. Dugaw has uncovered a fascination with women cross-dressers in the popular literature of early modern Europe and America. Surveying a wide range of Anglo-American texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature, she demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.
Great Britain --- United States --- Ballads, English --- Ballads, English. --- Cross-dressers in literature. --- Cross-dressing in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Popular literature --- Popular literature. --- War poetry, English --- War poetry, English. --- Women soldiers in literature. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- England. --- United States of America --- History --- Heroes --- Literature --- War --- Poetry --- Popular culture --- Cross-dressing --- Book
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In het district Jiangyong in het uiterste zuiden van de Chinese provincie Hunan bestond in deze eeuw een situatie die wellicht uniek is geweest in de wereldgeschiedenis. De vrouwen schreven in een eigen schrift dat de mannen niet konden lezen over de vreugden van onderlinge vriendschap, de angst voor verkrachting, de huiver voor het huwelijk, de ontberingen van het moederschap en de ellende van een bestaan als weduwe. Zo ontstond een literatuur van liederen en verhalen voor vrouwen door vrouwen, waarin zij hun eigen leven beschreven, zonder dat ze zich af hoefden te vragen wat het patriarchale gezag daar wel van zou vinden. De liederen en balladen in het vrouwenschrift bestrijken de verschillende aspecten van het leven op het Chinese platteland tijdens de laatste twee eeuwen en bieden ons een onverhulde blik op het harde bestaan van een dorpsgemeenschap, gezien door de ogen van vrouwen. Na 1949 werd het gebruik van het vrouwenschrift een reden voor vervolging en talloze teksten werden bewust vernietigd. Na 1978, toen nog slechts enkele vrouwen het schrift beheersten, zijn Chinese onderzoekers begonnen teksten in het vrouwenschrift te verzamelen en uit te geven; wat ons nu bekend is, is slechts een fractie van een eens zeer rijke literatuur.
Chinese literature --- vrouwenliteratuur --- China --- S16/0170 --- S11/0710 --- S16/0475 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Popular literature (incl. fairy tales, legends) --- anno 1900-1999 --- History --- Language use --- Women's literature --- Book --- China.
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This book was first published in 1999. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victorian novels by focusing attention on some of the women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history. Spanning the entire Victorian period, this study investigates particularly the role and treatment of 'the woman question' in the second half of the century. There are discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art. Moving from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Mary Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit, this book illuminates the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.
Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Thematology --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Popular literature --- Women's rights --- Feminist fiction, English --- Women's rights in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Women authors --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Writers --- Book
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Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre. In the book Gill Plain uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of crime fiction as a conservative genre. The rise of lesbian detection and the impact of serial killing are considered alongside detailed analyses of works by popular writers such as Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dick Francis and Sara Paretsky. Beginning with a radical reconceptualisation of genre categories, the book goes on to consider recent revisions and reappropriations of the form. The final section focuses on textual pleasure and the destabilising of genre boundaries, raising the timely question of whether the queering of crime fiction represents a revitalising paradigm shift or the conceptual collapse of the genre. The first substantial critical work on twentieth-century crime from a gender perspective. Provides in-depth textual analysis often missing from studies of popular fiction. Reappraises the framework within which crime fiction might be studied and taught. Sets key 'canonical' crime writers alongside both radical innovators and best-selling populists of the genre
American fiction --- Crime in literature --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- English fiction --- Human body in literature --- Popular literature --- Sex in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sexology --- Thematology --- Christie, Agatha --- Paretsky, Sara --- Crime in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Gender --- Homosexuality --- Female homosexuality --- LGBTQIA literature --- Images of women --- Women's literature --- Book --- Detective novels
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