The posthumous voice in women's writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath
By: by Claire Raymond.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- England -- History.; American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History.; Death in literature.; Feminism in literature.
Description: "This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous voice.' This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath, Raymond's study sounds out the ways that the trope of the posthumous voice succeeds in negotiating the difficult cultural space between the concept of woman's body and the production of canonical literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.