{"product_id":"9781441147448","title":"Contemporary Women Writers Look Back From Irony to Nostalgia","description":"\u003ch1\u003eContemporary Women Writers Look Back\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFrom Irony to Nostalgia\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAlice Ridout\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late 20th-century fiction was 'The Literature of Exhaustion,' authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was, however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the 21st century. It analyses how contemporary women writers deal with their literary inheritances, offering an illuminating and provocative study of contemporary women writers' re-writings of previous texts and stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough close readings of novels by key contemporary women writers including Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Emma Tennant and Helen Fielding, and of the ITV adaptation, Lost in Austen, Alice Ridout examines the politics of parody and nostalgia, exploring the limitations and possibilities of both in the contexts of feminism and postcolonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAlice Ridout is Assistant Professor in the English and Film Department at Algoma University, Sault St. Marie, Canada where she teaches in the fields of Contemporary, Canadian, Children's and Popular Literature. Her work has appeared in the journals \u003ci\u003eAdaptation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMargaret Atwood Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDoris Lessing Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Website Editor for the Doris Lessing Society and was President from 2012-2015. She also serves on the Editorial Board for \u003ci\u003eDoris Lessing Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and was Book Reviews Co-editor for \u003ci\u003eContemporary Women's Writing\u003c\/i\u003e from 2009-2011. Along with her two publications with Bloomsbury Publishing, she is also co-editor of \u003ci\u003eDoris Lessing's \u003c\/i\u003eThe Golden Notebook\u003ci\u003e After Fifty\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17 March 2011\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eContinuum\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781441147448\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e208\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.16\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331529015436,"sku":"9781441147448","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781441147448","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}