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This work considers how Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Sarah Waters’ Affinity investigate the role of the occult sciences and more particularly the figure of the spectral double as ways for the female characters to deconstruct the notion of womanhood. This paper first provides an overview of how womanhood was defined in the Victorian period: a concept based on social and biological determinism which enclosed women within labels such as the dichotomy that distinguishes between the “angel of the house” and the “demon in disguise”, but also the notion of “hysteria”. Then, this paper focuses on the use of typically feminine forms of expression, i.e. the writing of a diary and needlework, for the female protagonists to empower themselves. Moreover, the female characters also take on masculine conventions to reach a larger audience and to legitimate their stories. Lastly, this work examines how the occult during the Victorian period played an important role to question gender politics, especially with the figure of the spectral double. In both novels, Atwood and Waters feature spectral doubles which act as the characters’ asserted selves and allow them to question different aspects of womanhood and manhood.

Womanhood --- Spectral Double --- Neo-Victorianism --- Gothic --- Margaret Atwood --- Alias Grace --- Sarah Waters --- Affinity --- Gender politics --- Women's Studies --- Arts & sciences humaines > Littérature

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Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and innovative writers today, among them Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Clark Blaise, and many others. Yet in contrast to the stature and popularity of the genre and the writers who partake in it, surprisingly little literary criticism has been devoted to the Canadian short story. This book redresses that imbalance by providing the first collection of critical interpretations of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain completes it. Geared both to specialists in and students of Canadian literature, the volume is of particular benefit to the latter because it provides not only a collection of interpretations, but a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Canadian short story.

Contributors: Reingard M. Nischik, Martina Seifert, Heinz Antor, Julia Breitbach, Konrad Gross, Paul Goetsch, Dieter Meindl, Nina Kück, Stefan Ferguson, Rudolf Bader, FabienneC. Quennet, Martin Kuester, Jutta Zimmermann, Silvia Mergenthal, Caroline Rosenthal, Wolfgang Klooss, Lothar Hönnighausen, Heinz Ickstadt, Gordon Bölling, Christina Strobel, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Maria and Martin Löschnigg, Nadja Gernalzick, Eva Gruber, Brigitte Glaser, Georgiana Banita.

Reingard M. Nischik is Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

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Examining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, 'Inventions of Nemesis' offers a striking new take on utopia's fundamental project.

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This book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada, contains thirteen essays on many of Canada's most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The book looks critically at the esteemed sixties' television show Wojeck, as well as the more recent series Da Vinci's Inquest, Da Vinci's City Hall, and Intelligence, and the controversial Durham County, a critically acclaimed but violent television series that ran successfully in both Canada and the United States. The essays in Detecting Canada look at texts from a variety of perspectives, including postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, and critical race and class studies. Crime fiction, enjoyed by so many around the world, speaks to all of us about justice, citizenship, and important social issues in an uncertain world.

Crime on television --- Roman policier canadien --- Criminalité à la télévision --- Crime in television --- Television --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- . --- Alias Grace. --- Anthony Bidulka. --- Australian detective fiction. --- Beryl Langer. --- Canadian Psycho. --- DaVinci's Inquest. --- Durham County. --- Eric Wright. --- Gail Bowen. --- Giles Blunt. --- Gothic RCMP. --- Howard Engel. --- Indigenous detective fiction. --- Jennifer Andrews. --- Manina Jones. --- Margaret Atwood. --- Peter Robinson. --- Thumps DreadfulWater. --- Wojeck. --- canadian detectives. --- canadian mystery writers. --- canadian tv detectives. --- detective fiction. --- mystery.

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