Hysterical fictions
Subtitle: the "woman's novel" in the twentieth century
By: Clare Hanson.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism; Mind and body in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Women -- Books and reading; Femininity in literature; Sex role in literature; Women in literature
Description: "The woman's novel is a term used to describe fiction which, while immensely popular among educated women readers, sits uneasily between high and low culture. Clare Hanson argues that this hybrid status reflects the ambivalent position of its authors and readers as educated women caught between identification with a male-gendered intellectual culture and a counter-experience of culturally derogated female embodiment.

Using a variety of philosophical perspectives, she analyses the gendering of thought and culture and the complex ways in which the female body is coded as 'outside' or as preceding culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-187) and index.