Fay Weldon, feminism, and British culture : challenging cultural and literary conventions /

This book offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon's major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon's fiction engages with controversial moral and social issues. Mara Reisman provides in-depth examination of the relationship between Weldon's fiction and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reisman, Mara E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Feminism, women's fiction, and The Fat Woman's Joke
  • Articulating the concerns of women's liberation
  • Complicating a feminist reading of Fay Weldon's fiction
  • Fay Weldon as a social critic : ethics and morality
  • Fay Weldon's public persona
  • Art, economics, and the politics of purity
  • Challenging narrative truth.