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Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture

Author : Mara E. Reisman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498581277
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture written by Mara E. Reisman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture: Challenging Cultural and Literary Conventions 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, social, and political issues. This book provides an in-depth examination of the relationship between Weldon’s fiction and the contemporary feminist, cultural, and literary movements in Britain. Representative works from each decade speak to the multiple controversies and challenges to convention in which Weldon and her books played key roles. Drawing on Weldon’s personal history, fiction, and nonfiction as well as on historical, sociological, and literary documents, this book builds a cultural framework in which to understand Weldon’s work and the critical response to it. It shows that although Weldon’s battleground may change with the times, her ability and desire to provoke controversy remain constant as she continues to question and upset social, literary, and cultural conventions.

The Life and Loves of a She Devil

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848944160
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Loves of a She Devil written by Fay Weldon and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'ONE OF OUR VERY BEST WRITERS' Sunday Times 'A tour de force' The Times 'Intoxicating' Daily Telegraph 'Devilishly delightful' New York Times Book Review 'Beautifully and compellingly written' Sunday Express 'Audacious' Times Literary Supplement The bestselling classic tale of a woman scorned, from a much-loved British author Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact - simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge. A blackly comic satire of the war of the sexes, The Life and Loves of a She Devil is the fantasy of the wronged woman made real. PRAISE FOR FAY WELDON 'She's a Queen of Words' Caitlin Moran 'A national treasure' Literary Review 'The literary equivalent of a stiff drink, a dip in the Atlantic in January, a pep talk by a mildly sadistic coach' New York Times 'Times have changed and Weldon is one of the people who have changed them' The Times 'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature' Harper's Bazaar 'Fay Weldon's voice is as unmistakeable as her acerbic wit' Financial Times

"Mind You, They'll Say Anything"

Author : Mara Elise Reisman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book "Mind You, They'll Say Anything" written by Mara Elise Reisman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bulgari Connection

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 155584801X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Bulgari Connection written by Fay Weldon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] hilarious page-turner...Weldon’s diabolically clever satire of greed, fashion, sex, and age is smart entertainment of the highest order.”—Booklist Grace has just been released from prison, where she was sent for trying to run over her ex-husband’s new wife with her Jaguar in a supermarket parking lot. It may make things a little awkward when all three of them attend a glittering charity ball in London together... From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, this “piquant social comedy” (New York Daily News) is a tale of passion, spite, romance, and revenge, set in the world of the rich, the stylish, the famous—and the infamous. “Playful, sharp, and funny.”—Los Angeles Times “Swift and amusing.”—The New York Times

The Female Complaint

Author : Lauren Berlant
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389169
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Female Complaint written by Lauren Berlant and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural “intimate public” in the United States, a “women’s culture” distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of a conversation that feels intimate and revelatory. As Berlant explains, “women’s” books, films, and television shows enact a fantasy that a woman’s life is not just her own, but an experience understood by other women, no matter how dissimilar they are. The commodified genres of intimacy, such as “chick lit,” circulate among strangers, enabling insider self-help talk to flourish in an intimate public. Sentimentality and complaint are central to this commercial convention of critique; their relation to the political realm is ambivalent, as politics seems both to threaten sentimental values and to provide certain opportunities for their extension. Pairing literary criticism and historical analysis, Berlant explores the territory of this intimate public sphere through close readings of U.S. women’s literary works and their stage and film adaptations. Her interpretation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its literary descendants reaches from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, touching on Shirley Temple, James Baldwin, and The Bridges of Madison County along the way. Berlant illuminates different permutations of the women’s intimate public through her readings of Edna Ferber’s Show Boat; Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life; Olive Higgins Prouty’s feminist melodrama Now, Voyager; Dorothy Parker’s poetry, prose, and Academy Award–winning screenplay for A Star Is Born; the Fay Weldon novel and Roseanne Barr film The Life and Loves of a She-Devil; and the queer, avant-garde film Showboat 1988–The Remake. The Female Complaint is a major contribution from a leading Americanist.

Before the War

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125012123X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Before the War written by Fay Weldon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Great Britain: Head of Zeus, 2016.

British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement

Author : Jill Franks
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602689
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement written by Jill Franks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September illustrates the melancholy of gender performance and confusion of ethnic identity in the dying Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. In England, suffrage ideologies clashed with socialism and patriotism. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway contains a political unconscious that links its characters across class and gender. In the second wave, heterosexual romantic relationships come under scrutiny. Edna O'Brien's Country Girls trilogy reveals ways in which Irish Catholic ideologies abject femaleness; her characters internalize this abjection to the point of self-destruction. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook pits the protagonist's aspirations to write novels against the Communist Party's prohibitions on bourgeois values. In the third wave, Irish writers express the frustrations of their cultural identity. Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You takes her protagonist back to Ireland to heal her psychic wounds. In England, Thatcherism had created a materialistic culture that eroded many feminists' socialist values. Fay Weldon's Big Woman satirizes the demise of second-wave idealism, asking where feminism can go from here.

Letters to Alice

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480412422
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Alice written by Fay Weldon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aunt imparts wisdom to her teenage niece, inspired by the works of Jane Austen, in this novel from the Man Booker Prize–nominated author. Alice is an aspiring novelist with green hair and zero interest in reading Jane Austen for her college English class. However, her Aunt Fay, a novelist herself, isn’t about to let Alice stick her nose up at Austen or other enduring authors. “You find her boring, petty and irrelevant, and, that as the world is in crisis, and the future catastrophic, you cannot imagine what purpose there can be in reading her,” Fay writes her. “My dear pretty little Alice, now with black and green hair . . . How can I hope to explain Literature to you, with its capital ‘L’?” Alternating between passages from Jane Austen’s novels and accounts of her own career, Aunt Fay pays tribute to a great author, explores the craft of fiction, and charts her niece’s development as a writer in this unique book that reveals how Austen—and great literature—is truly, wonderfully timeless.

Mischief

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Mischief written by Fay Weldon and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Affliction

Author : Michael Petrin
Publisher : Ground Floor Art & Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Affliction written by Michael Petrin and published by Ground Floor Art & Publishing . This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare phenomenon attacks the world. Once it occurs individuals see other people as the same race. A human scientific solution cannot be discovered, which leaves the possibility of extraterrestrial involvement. A mix of science fiction and real world issues.

Watching Me, Watching You

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480412651
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Watching Me, Watching You written by Fay Weldon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFay Weldon’s first short-story collection features her trademark themes of feminism, sisterhood, and domestic livelihood, where the ties that bind can also draw blood/divDIV Love, loss, and the ever-changing sexual battlefield are the themes of this early anthology by master storyteller Fay Weldon: In “Christmas Tree,” the adulterous playwright hero embarks on a quest for true love, perhaps the most self-deceiving state of all; “Breakages” explores the fragility of married life as a miserly vicar’s infertile wife contemplates his much-darned socks amid ghostly visitations; the loss of hair and female friendship are brought to poignant life in “Alopecia,” while religion becomes an excuse for infidelity in “Holy Stones”; a holiday game of Monopoly reveals the widening holes in the fabric of a family in “Man with No Eyes”; and an old house and its inhabitants are haunted by doomed love in the title story./divDIV /divDIVBy turns humorous, ironic, and tragic, Watching Me, Watching You presents Fay Weldon at her most witty, original, and courageous./div

Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature

Author : Mara E. Reisman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793648476
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature written by Mara E. Reisman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature offers a critical analysis of moral complexity and social responsibility in works by Kazuo Ishiguro, Patrick McGrath, Graham Swift, Andrea Levy, and Jeanette Winterson. Mara Reisman argues that through their writing, these authors reveal and upset literary, cultural, and political fictions and encourage readers to think carefully about language, power, community, and social justice. The book examines moral issues in two different ways: how books by these authors address morally complex social, political, and cultural issues and how their books serve a moral function by challenging readers to be socially engaged. Reisman provides an in-depth analysis of The Remains of the Day, Asylum, The Light of Day, Small Island, and The Daylight Gate and uses these books to discuss twentieth- and twenty-first-century British politics and culture. These books address a wide variety of issues often associated with moral judgments: war, racism, adultery, maternal neglect, murder, professional misconduct, witchcraft, and religion. Despite this diversity and settings that range from the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century, these books include similar arguments about how empathy, personal responsibility, and civic engagement can create more productive social relations and a less divided world.

The Beauty Myth

Author : Naomi Wolf
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006196994X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty Myth written by Naomi Wolf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

Contemporary British Women Writers

Author : Emma Parker
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840114
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Women Writers written by Emma Parker and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers. Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within the academy almost exclusively by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. This collection celebrates the range and diversity of contemporary (post-1970) British women writers. It challenges misconceptions about the natureand scope of fiction by women writers working in Britain - commonly dismissed as parochial, insular, dreary and domestic - and seeks to expand conventional definitions of "British" by exploring how issues of nationality intersectwith gender, class, race and sexuality. Writers covered include Pat Barker, A.L. Kennedy, Maggie Gee, Rukhsana Ahmad, Joan Riley, Jennifer Johnston, Ellen Galford, Susan Hill, Fay Weldon, Emma Tennant, and Helen Fielding. Contributors: DAVID ELLIS, CLARE HANSON, MAROULA JOANNOU, PAULINA PALMER, EMMA PARKER, FELICITY ROSSLYN, CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE, JOHN SEARS, ELUNED SUMMERS-BREMNER, IMELDA WHELEHAN, GINA WISKER.

After the Peace

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784082090
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book After the Peace written by Fay Weldon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbour and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous as it turned out. For donor no. 116349, '6ft 1in, blue eyes, blond hair, BA (Oxon), action man...' is the 9th Earl of Dilberne, who gave his seed back in 1979 as a stripling of twenty-two, and has now conceived a daughter – unknowingly – at the riper age of forty-two. As they say, the truth will out. And what will our Rozzie do when she finds out about her patrimony? All we know is that as a true Millennial, she will not take it lying down...

The New Countess

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781851662
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The New Countess written by Fay Weldon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1905 and King Edward VII has invited himself and his mistress to a shooting weekend with the Dilbernes. Now Isobel, the Countess, must turn a run-down mansion into a palace fit for a king. Just as well the family fortunes have been restored, but money can't solve everything... not even a kidnapping. The servants refuse to condone the King's morals; Isobel's daughter, Lady Rosina – now widowed and wealthy – insists on publishing a scandalous book, and the mis-spent pasts of Viscount Arthur and his Irish-American wife Minnie rear up to blacken the family name. When fate deals a hand in the middle of the shooting party, Isobel must consider not only her leading position in Society, but her entire future. Fay Weldon brings an aristocratic Edwardian household to fabulous, vibrant life in this gorgeously witty tale of manners and morals, commoners and countesses, from one of Britain's best loved authors.

What Makes Women Happy

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556526814
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Women Happy written by Fay Weldon and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an inimitable wit and insight, this encouraging tome humorously addresses what women can do to lead more balanced lives. Women learn how to tackle anxiety, envy, guilt, and other sources of stress, while giving in to indulgences and desires like sex, food, friends, family, and shopping.