Fiction, crime, and the feminine. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rédouane Abouddahab and Josiane Paccaud-Huguet.
• Other Names: Abouddahab, Rédouane; Paccaud-Huguet, Josiane
• Contents: 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; contributors.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 186 pages)
• Subjects: 809.3872; Literary essays; Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism; Female offenders in literature; Women in literature; Women novelists; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Mystery & Detective; Detective and mystery stories; Female offenders in literature; Women in literature; Women novelists; Literary theory; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443828284; 1443828289
• Related ISBNs: 9781443827102; 144382710X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.