Women Driven Mad

Women’s Madness in English and American Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book offers an in-depth analysis as to how and why women have been widelyassociated with madness since ancient times. The first part of the book comprises ahistorical survey of various perceptions of madness across the centuries, while thesecond part of the book covers a wide selection of literary works by American andEnglish writers who dealt with this subject in their works. In this part of the book,the authors examine selected works of literature from a feminist perspective byalso drawing on the works of influential theorists of feminist criticism. The authorsfurther show how these writers, who have been influenced by various philosophersand theoreticians, critically examine women’s madness in their fiction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-06-29
Mått148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
Upplaga22001
FörlagPeter Lang AG
ISBN9783631873458

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Gönül Bakay is a professor at Bahçes¸ehir University, Turkey. Her teaching expertisecovers women’s studies, Gothic novel and English literature from the 18th centuryto the present. She is a member of the Women’s Studies Center of I˙stanbul University,of M.S.E.A, BSECS and a member of the board of directors of K.A.D. (CulturalStudies Club).Handan Dedehayır, who has managed the publishing and translation activities ofvarious institutions following her education in psychology, provided a backgroundto the examples of women’s madness in English and American literature that is thebackbone of the book.

English literature – Women studies – Madness – Women literature – Gender studies – Margery Kempe – Mary Wollstonecraft – Emily Brontë – Charlotte Brontë – Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Virginia Woolf – Jean Rhys – Daphne du Maurier – Doris Lessing – Kate Milett – Phyllis Chesler – Marge Piercy – Joanne Greenberg – Kay Redfield Jamison – Joan Didion – Nawal el Saadawi – Shirtley Jackson – Sylvia Plath – Elizabeth Flock – Susanna Kaysen.