Disruptive women of literature : Rooting for the antiheroine / Eleanore Gardner.

Contextualising the antiheroine figure in Western literary history. Archetypes, heroes, and the mythic origins of the antiheroine figure
Literary vs television iterations and an ever-evolving definition
Exploring the antiheroine's literary ancestor: nineteenth and early twentieth century notions of transgression
Politicising the personal: the antiheroine and the women's liberation movement
The Gothic antiheroine: defying deviancy. The female Gothic and its fresh façade
Navigating the antiheroine's internalised misogyny: the transformative power of female friendship in Cat's eye and The robber bride
Engaging with the Gothic: domestic spaces, female friendships, and the weaponisation of motherhood in The woman upstairs, The paper wasp and Eileen
Serial killers, abject wives, and avenging punks: the antiheroine's negotiation of patriarchal cycles of violence in crime-thriller fiction. Rewriting the victim narrative and the impact of Millennium
'Three, and they label you a serial killer': Questions of gender and violence in My sister, the serial killer
The maiming of the body: Lisbeth, Amy, and Camille
Breaking the cycle of patriarchal violence: sisterly rivalry, the new femme fatale, and Lisbeth reborn in David Lagercrantz's Millennium.