Biology and manners : essays on the worlds and works of Lois McMaster Bujold /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lee, Regina Yung (Editor), McCormack, Una (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Series:	Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; v.64.
Subjects:	Bujold, Lois McMaster > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses. Science fiction, American > History and criticism > Congresses. Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism > Congresses. Bujold, Lois McMaster Science fiction, American Fantasy fiction, American Conference papers and proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Section 1 The Emergence of Bujold Studies
Introduction: The Emergence of Bujold Studies / Una McCormack
The History of Scholarship on Lois McMaster Bujold's Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Feminist Bibliographic Essay / Robin Anne Reid
Section 2 Bujold's Women
Untimely Graces: Gender, Failure, and Sainthood in Lois McMaster Bujold's Paladin of Souls / Regina Yung Lee
You Wish to Have the Curse Reversed? Traditional Narrative Motifs of Gender Reconfigured in Bujold's Chalion Novels / Caitlin Herington
In Quiet Converse: The Intertextual Speaking of Madame Vorsoisson and Miss Price / Katharine Woods
Section 3 Heroes' Journeys
The Shape of a Hero's Soul: Exploring the Paradox of Fate and Free Will in The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls / C. Palmer-Patel
The Road and the River: Genre-Neering a Future in The Sharing Knife Series / Sylvia Kelso
Pain Made Holy: Narratives of Disability and Pain in The Curse of Chalion / Joanne Woiak
Section 4 Potential Futures and Imagined Pasts
Queering Barrayar: The Uterine Replicator in Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen / Jey Saung
`What you need is a liege lord': Futuristic Feudalism in The Warrior's Apprentice / Sarah Lindsay
Womb with a View: Ectogenesis in Ethan of Athos and Brave New World / Ally Wolfe
Section 5 Holy Families
The Holy Family: Divine Queerness in The Curse of Chalion and The Hallowed Hunt / Robin Anne Reid
The Bastard Balances All: The Essential Other in Bujold's Queer Theology / Meg MacDonald
Section 6 Beyond the Books
The Naismith Stratagem: Authenticity and Adaptation in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga: Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game / Peter Wright
Canon Compliance and Creative Analysis in Vorkosigan Saga Fan Fiction / Kristina Busse.