MACMILLAN Women Writers and Experimental Narratives: Early Modern to Contemporary

This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentation―of style, mode, voice, genre and language―has enabled women writers to be simultaneously creative and critical, engaged in and yet apart from stories and cultures that have so often seen them as ‘other’. This collection shows that women writers in English over the past 400 years have challenged those ideas not only through explicit polemic and alternative representations but through disrupting the very modes of representation and story itself. From the Back Cover This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentation―of style, mode, voice, genre and language―has enabled women writers to be simultaneously creative and critical, engaged in and yet apart from stories and cultures that have so often seen them as ‘other’. This collection shows that women writers in English over the past 400 years have challenged those ideas not only through explicit polemic and alternative representations but through disrupting the very modes of representation and story itself. About the Author Kate Aughterson is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK, specializing in women’s writing and early modern drama. Her books include Renaissance Woman (1995), Webster: The Tragedies (2001), Aphra Behn: The Comedies (2003), Shakespeare: The Late Plays (2013) and she is co-author of Jim Crace: Into the Wilderness (2018) and Shakespeare and Gender (2020). Deborah Philips is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the University of Brighton, UK. Her books include: Writing Romance: Women’s Fiction 1945– present (2006), Fairground Attractions (2012),  The Trojan  Horse (with Garry Whannel, 2015) and  Brave New Causes (with Ian Haywood, 1999). Her study of Sandy Wilson, And this is My Friend Sandy, will be published in 2020.