Wallraven, Miriam
A Writing Halfway between Theory and Fiction

Mediating Feminism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century.

This book is focused on the surprisingly large number of feminist women writers in literary history who use different genres for their feminist ideas while subverting or transgressing established boundaries between fictional and theoretical writing. In particular, texts by such diverse authors as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Mary Robinson, Harriet Martineau, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf, the French Feminists Hélène Cixous and Monique Wittig, Margaret Cavendish, and Michèle Roberts are analysed. This chronological indepth reading of feminist texts is based on the interrelation of content, genre and discourse. The study provides the first analysis of the phenomenon of the gendering of genre and feminists' troubled involvement in 'theory' as well as 'literature'. 306 Seiten, broschiert (ZAA Monograph Series; Band 5/Königshausen & Neumann 2007) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear