Cora Kaplan – Double Crossings

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Feminism, Race, the Popular

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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The essays brought together in this book span the last quarter century of Cora Kaplan’s imaginative thinking and writing about the interrelated questions of gender, race, class and empire. They include work on feminism’s cultural politics, women’s writing on race and empire in Britain in the long nineteenth century, the reimagining of gender in modern crime writing and popular film, and the political/personal work of memoir. Linked by an historical approach to literary and cultural works, all these pieces pay keen attention to the busy crossroads of wider political, social and cultural traffic at the time of a work’s first appearance. These essays chart the changing agendas in contemporary literary studies with particular reference to the shifting profile of modern feminism, postcolonial history and theory, and the increasingly rapid circulation of narrative tropes across a variety of new and traditional media sites and settings.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFeminist Library: Essays in Cultural Criticism
Antal sidor272
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474488440

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Cora Kaplan (1940-2024) was Professor Emerita, University of Southampton and Honorary Professor in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism (2007); Genders (with David Glover; 2000; 2009); Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism (1986); Salt and Bitter and Good: Three Centuries of English and American Women Poets (1975; 2020). From 1992-1995 she served as Director, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

IntroductionSources and AcknowledgmentsPart I. Feminist Afterlives1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Ghosts (2002)Part II. Race, Slavery and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination2. ‘A Heterogenous Thing’: Female Childhood and the Rise of Racial Thinking in Victorian Britain. (1996)3. Imagining Empire: History, Fantasy and Literature (2006)4. Harriet Martineau’s Ethnographic Imagination (2010)5. 'A Cavern Opened in My Mind': The Poetics of Homosexuality and the Politics of Masculinity in James BaldwinPart III. Crimes and Misdemeanours6. Dirty Harriet/Blue Steel: Feminist Theory Goes to Hollywood (1993)7. Josephine Tey and Her Descendants: Conservative Modernity and the Female Crime Novel (2011)8. Jane Austen, Modern Masculinity, and Crime (2004)9. The Death of the Working-Class Hero (2004)Part IV. Past and Present Passions10. Introduction: Salt and Bitter and Good: Three Centuries of English and American Women Poets (1975) [6500] Foreword (2020)11. Witchcraft: A Child’s Story (1996)12. The Golden Notebook and Me: A Reprise (2010)