Year: 1977
Editor: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Genre: Literary criticism, collection of articles
Publisher: Prentice Hall; First Edition (November 1977)
ISBN: 0-13-171330-2
Series: 20th Century Views
English language
Format: DjVu
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 191
Is the woman novelist a different breed? Does her sex determine the content of her work? Her technique? Or her values?
Answering these and other questions, Contemporary Women Novelists offers a variety of perspectives on the place today's women novelists occupy in the literary tradition. In 11 penetrating essays, writers and critics including Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Malcolm Bradbury, and Virginia Beards probe stylistic and sexual nuances in the work of such outstanding contemporary novelists as Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, Doris Lessing, Muriel Sparks, Iris Murdoch, and Jean Rhys.
Introducing readers to the broad scope that the work of such novelists encompasses — meticulous realism to extravagant fantasy... happy, sad, and inconclusive endings... settings from Ireland to Africa... varieties of plot, point of view, theme, and characterization — the book suggests that so-called ''ladies" subject matter and style are a thing of the past.
Authentic description of the female experience in fiction and its serious critical appraisal are only recent developments, and Contemporary Women Novelists offers an illuminating exploration of this previously uncharted area of literature.
Contents
Introduction by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Margaret Drabble: Novels of a Cautious Feminist by Virginia K. Beards
Disorderly Company: From The Golden Notebook to The Four-Gated City by Dagmar Barnouw
Doris Lessing in the Sixties: The New Anatomy of Melancholy by Frederick R. Karl
The Case Against McCarthy: A Review of The Group by Norman Mailer
Mary McCarthy: Society's Demands by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Iris Murdoch: The Novelist as Magician/The Magician as Artist by Linda Kuehl
Women in the Novels of Ann Petry by Thelma J. Shinn
Character and Themes in the Novels of Jean Rhys by Elgin W. Mellown
Muriel Spark's Fingernails by Malcolm Bradbury
Delta Wedding as Region and Symbol by John Edward Hardy
Eudora's Web by Joyce Carol Oates
Chronology of Important Dates
Notes on the Editor and Contributors
Selected Bibliography
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