Women Writers and Experimental Narratives

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Unlink the Chain’: Experimentation in Aphra Behn’s Novels

Chapter 3 Experiment in Prose: Authority and Experience in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters

Chapter 4 Experiment on a Dissected Reading: Maternal Absence in Frankenstein’s Gothic Gravidity

Chapter 5 Genre-Bending and Experimentation in Sensation Fiction: The Case of Mary Braddon and Ellen Wood

Chapter 6 The Ironic Strategies of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

Chapter 7 Realms of Resemblance: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Maï Zetterling

Chapter 8 1966 and Wide Sargasso Sea: The Climate that Made Jean Rhys Legible

Chapter 9 Neo-Victorian Experimental Narrative: Writing the Absent Objects of History in Affinity and In the Red Kitchen

Chapter 10 Troublesome Reading: Story and Speculation in African-American and African-Originated Women’s Writing. Resurrecting the Past, Re-imagining the Future

Chapter 11 Working from the Wound: Trauma, Memory and Experimental Writing Praxis in Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Chapter 12 Helen Oyeyemi at the Vanguard of Innovation in Contemporary Black British Women’s Literature

Chapter 13 ‘She’s a Fine Girl’: Early Experiences of Sexuality and Selfhood in Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing and Charlotte Roche’s Wetlands

Chapter 14 ‘Daring to Tilt Worlds’: The Fiction of Irenosen Okojie