A.S. Byatt and intellectual women : fictions, histories, myths / Leanne Bibby.
Bibby, Leanne, author.
2022
PR6052.Y2
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Title
A.S. Byatt and intellectual women : fictions, histories, myths / Leanne Bibby.
Author
Bibby, Leanne, author.
ISBN
9783031086717 (electronic bk.)
3031086716 (electronic bk.)
9783031086700
3031086708
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08671-7
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 241 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-08671-7 doi
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PR6052.Y2
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.914
Summary
This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatts representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be inherently mythopoeic, or capable of restructuring the myth of the intellectual as male by default. This mythopoeia is, furthermore, intrinsically feminist in function, thus potentially broadening the conventional, limited view of women in intellectual history. The book will be the first study of Byatts work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women intellectuals in historical and literary discourse to apply concepts of mythopoeia and sexual difference in ways that allow new readings of womens status and work in public spheres. Leanne Bibby is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 13, 2022).
Series
Palgrave studies in contemporary women's writing. 2523-8159
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1 Introduction
2 Cultural Histories of the Intellectual: From Patriarchal Myth to Feminist Mythopoeia
3 A. S. Byatt: Creating the Intellectual Woman
4 Minds and Bodies
5 Intellectuals and Sexual Specificity
6 Women Intellectuals, Private Intellectuals?
7 Future Histories of Intellectual Women
8 Afterword: Mythopoeia: Beyond Torment.

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