Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing

Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Contributors viii Introduction 1 Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn Part I: Towards a Reconceptualization of History and Identity 1 The Witch, the Puritan and the Prophet: Historical Novels and Seventeenth-Century History 15 Katharine Hodgkin 2 History as Story in Angela Carter's American Ghosts and Old World Wonders 30 Sarah Gamble 3 Falling Off the Edge of the World: History and Gender in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic 45 Sherry Booth 4 Time, Space and (Her)Story in the Fiction of Eva Figes 59 Julia Tofant uk 5 From Demidenko to Darville: Behind the Scenes of a Literary Carnival 73 Rachel Morley Part II: Historiographic Re-visionings 6 Historicizing Witchcraft Throughout the Ages: Joanna Baillie and Caryl Churchill 89 Christine A. Col n 7 The Benefits of Watching the Circus Animals Desert: Myth, Yeats and Patriarchy in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus 102 Michael Sinowitz 8 Passion and Possession as Alternatives to 'Cosmic Masculinity' in 'Herstorical Romances' 116 Georges Letissier 9 Michele Roberts: Histories and Herstories in In the Red Kitchen, Fair Exchange and The Looking Glass 133 Sarah Falcus Part III: Generic Experimentations with Gender and Genre 10 Rewriting The Rover 149 Johanna M. Smith 11 The Convent Novel and the Uses of History 158 Diana Wallace 12 The Revenge of the Stereotype: Rewriting the History of the Gothic Heroine in Alice Thompson's Justine 172 Maria Vara 13 The Resisting Writer: Revisiting the Canon, Rewriting History in Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer 182 Jeannette King 14 Breaking the Mould? Sarah Waters and the Politics of Genre 195 Mark Llewellyn Index 211