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BL
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1029616
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b783986
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| Title & Author
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Metafiction and metahistory in contemporary women's writing /\ edited by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke [England] ;New York :: Palgrave,, 2007.
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| Page. NO
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xi, 222 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0230005047
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: 9780230005044
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The witch, the Puritan and the prophet: historical novels and seventeenth-century history / Katharine Hodgkin -- History as story in Angela Carter's American Ghosts and Old World Wonders / Sarah Gamble -- Falling off the edge of the world: history and genders in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic / Sherry Booth -- Time, space and (Her) story in the fiction of Eva Figes / Julia Tofantsuk -- From Demidenko to Darville: behind the scenes of a literary carnival / Rachel Morley -- Historicizing witchcraft throughout the ages: Joanna Baillie and Caryl Churchill / Christine A. Colon -- The benefits of watching the circus animals desert: myth, Yeats, and patriarchy in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus / Michael Sinowitz -- Passion and possession as alternatives to 'Cosmic masculinity' in 'Herstorical romances' / Georges Letissier -- Michele Roberts: histories and herstories in In the Red Kitchen, Fair Exchange and The Looking Glass / Sarah Falcus -- Rewriting The Rover / Johanna M. Smith -- The convent novel and the uses of history / Diana Wallace -- The revenge of the stereotype: rewriting the history of the Gothic heroine in Alice Thompson's Justine / Maria Vara -- The resisting writer: revisiting the canon, rewriting history in Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife, or the Star-Gazer / Jeannette King -- Breaking the mould? Sarah Waters and the politics of genre / Mark Llewellyn.
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| Abstract
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"The essays assembled in this volume offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history."--Jacket.
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American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Fiction-- Authorship.
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Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Fiction-- Authorship.
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Frauenliteratur
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Roman américain-- Femmes écrivains-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.
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Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.
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Roman anglais-- Femmes écrivains-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.
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Roman anglais-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.
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Women and literature.
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Engels.
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Fictie.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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823.9/099287
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| LC Classification
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PR888.W6M35 2007
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18.05bcl
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| Added Entry
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Heilmann, Ann.
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Llewellyn, Mark,1979-
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