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Rethinking Contemporary British Women's Writing: Realism, Feminism, Materialism

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Rethinking Contemporary British Women's Writing: Realism, Feminism, Materialism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Emilie Walezak
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:184
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreLiterature - history and criticism
Literary theory
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781350258549
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Edition NIPPOD

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 23 March 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Providing close readings of well-known British realist writers including Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Rose Tremain, Sarah Hall, Bernadine Evaristo and Zadie Smith, this book uses new directions in material and posthuman feminism to examine how contemporary women writers explore the challenges we collectively face today. Walezak redresses negative assumptions about realism's alleged conservatism and demonstrates the vitality and relevance of the realist genre in experimenting with the connections between individual and collective voices, human and non-human meditations, local and global scales, and author and reader. Considering how contemporary realist writing is attuned to pressing issues including globalization, climate change, and interconnectivity, this book provides innovative new ways of reading realism, examines how these writers are looking to reinvent the genre, and shows how realism helps reimagine our place in the world.

Author Biography

Emilie Walezak is a senior lecturer (MCF) at Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, France. A specialist of contemporary British women writing, she has devoted several articles to the works of Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt, Sarah Hall, Rose Tremain and Jeanette Winterson. She is the author of Rose Tremain: A Critical Introduction (2017).