LEADER 04929nam 22006975 450 001 9910552741703321 005 20230810174546.0 010 $a9783030941260$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030941253 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-94126-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6921748 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6921748 035 $a(CKB)21393441900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-94126-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921393441900041 100 $a20220310d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAdventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction $eGirls' Own Stories /$fby Jeannette King 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (167 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: King, Jeannette Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030941253 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Revisiting the Canon, Rewriting History: Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife, Or The Stargazer -- 3. Domesticating the Wilderness, a Woman's Mission: Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton -- 4. Women and an Uncivil War: Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women -- 5. Adventures of Body and Soul: Audrey Thomas, Isobel Gunn -- 6. Home and Away: Jane Urquhart, Away: A Novel -- 7. The Female Epic: Antonine Maillet, Pélagie: The Return to Acadie -- 8. Conquistador's Moll or Mother of the Nation? Laura Esquivel, Malinche -- 9. The Female Conquistador: Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul -- 10. The Legacy of the Conquistadors: Esmeralda Santiago, Conquistadora -- 11. Conclusion. . 330 $a"This ground-breaking study introduces a challenging genre of women's writing in which dauntless female protagonists represent a powerful alternative to the dominant traditions of the heroic male adventurer. The study is underpinned by substantive historical research. The clarity and engagement of King's writing ensure it will be appreciated by academic and general readers alike." -Pam Morris, independent scholar, formerly Professor of Modern Critical Studies at Liverpool John Moores University This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels introduce the neglected women of history, real and imagined, who accompanied their menfolk to the New World, and enabled its settlement or colonisation. Familiar novelists include Isabel Allende, Audrey Thomas and Jane Smiley, but this book also introduces less familiar writers who have produced richly textured and densely historical novels. In addition to putting women back into history, these writers engage with the literature of the past, including the American canon of male fiction which dominated literary history before the intervention of feminist scholars. The book begins with an introduction to the history of historical fiction and provides a theoretical, historical and geographical context for the novels themselves. Jeannette King is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Publications include: Discourses of Ageing in Fiction and Feminism (2012), The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction (2005), Women and the Word: Contemporary Women Novelists and the Bible (2000) , and Tragedy in the Victorian Novel: Theory and Practice in the Novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Henry James (1978) . 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLatin American literature 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aLatin American/Caribbean Literature 606 $aComparative Literature 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLatin American literature. 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aLatin American/Caribbean Literature. 615 24$aComparative Literature. 676 $a813.08109 676 $a813.6093522 700 $aKing$b Jeannette$0166264 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910552741703321 996 $aAdventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction$92803995 997 $aUNINA