02971nam 2200649Ia 450 991078843700332120230725045847.01-283-14270-897866131427021-4438-2828-9(CKB)3360000000431481(EBL)1133065(OCoLC)830168324(SSID)ssj0000543682(PQKBManifestationID)11322935(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543682(PQKBWorkID)10533969(PQKB)11252830(MiAaPQ)EBC1133065(Au-PeEL)EBL1133065(CaPaEBR)ebr10677149(CaONFJC)MIL314270(OCoLC)697774484(FINmELB)ELB144906(EXLCZ)99336000000043148120110609d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFiction, crime, and the feminine[electronic resource] /edited by Redouane Abouddahab and Josiane Paccaud-HuguetNewcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars20111 online resource (204 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-2710-X Includes bibliographical references.TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CRIMELESS FEMININITY; THE LAW OF GENDER; LADY AUDLEY AND LYDIA GWILT; RE-WRITING A WOMAN'S CRIME; TESS THE MURDERESS, EUSTACIA THE ADDER; "THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE"; FROM THE MURDERER'S SOLILOQUY TO THE POISONER'S MONOLOGUE; FROM CONFIDENT TO MURDERER; RED BEADS AND FUNERAL HOMES; ANTIGONE LOST IN "THE FURY OF THE AGE OF BAR-ROOMS"; THE OBSCENE TRAGEDY OF THE DEATH DRIVE IN I HARDLY KNEW YOU, BY EDNA O'BRIEN; THE MILKY WAKE:SACRIFICE AS JOUISSANCE IN TONI MORRISON'S WORK; CONTRIBUTORSThe form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other's desire and the strange libido attached to violence: in other words, there is an ambivalent dimension inherent in the scenarios and fantasies we enjoy by proxy. Are not the fairy tales of our childhood full of images of death and violence, whose fascinating presence is paradoxically meant to make us feel all the more safely tucked up in bed? After ...Women and literatureFemale offenders in literatureCrime in literatureFemininity in literatureWomen and literature.Female offenders in literature.Crime in literature.Femininity in literature.809.3872Abouddahab Redouane1122592Paccaud-Huguet Josiane176309MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788437003321Fiction, crime, and the feminine3825870UNINA