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Author:   Miriam Borham-Puyal
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367277789

ISBN 10:   0367277786
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   16 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Introduction: Liminality, Feminocentric Narratives, and the Polytemporality of the New Woman Liminality and Feminocentric Narratives Polytemporal (Feminist) History and the Trace Liminal Women and Popular Narratives 2. Female Vampires: On the Threshold of Time, Space, and Gender F(r)iends on the Threshold: Let the Right One In M/Others and Survivors through Time: A Vampire Story and Byzantium Eternity, Liminal Space, and the Outsider: Only Lovers Left Alive Empowering Liminal Women: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 3. Good and Bad, Private and Public: Prostitution as Liminal Identity Between Monsters and Machines: Frankenhooker The Freedom of the Prostitute or the Silence of the Wife: Dangerous Beauty Neo-Victorian Rewritings: Class, Gender, and Commodities in Slammerkin Sex and Power from the Eighteenth Century to Television: Harlots 4. Between Madness and Rebellion: Rewriting the Female Quixote Coloring Reality with Romance: from Bridget Jones’s Diary to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Escaping a Harrowing (Patriarchal) Reality: Pan’s Labyrinth and Sucker Punch Idealistic Individuals in a Fallen World: Amélie and The Bookshop 5. To Be and Not to Be: Female Detectives between Old and New Women Resurrecting Kate Warne: The Pinkertons and My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Sherlock’s Sisters at the Turn of the Century: Houdini & Doyle and Phryne Fisher Invisible Women: Reclaiming the Spy in The Bletchley Circle Past in the Present, the Gothic in the Noir: Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy

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Winner of the 2021 ""Enrique García Díez"" Award for research in Literary Studies in English (AEDEAN)

Winner of the 2021 Enrique Garcia Diez Award for research in Literary Studies in English (AEDEAN)

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Miriam Borham-Puyal lectures at the English Department of the University of Salamanca. She is the author of the monograph Quijotes con enaguas. Encrucijada de géneros en el siglo XVIII británico (2015) and has published extensively on British quixotes. She has also authored pieces on women writers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, including Jane Austen, Jane Barker, Mary Brunton, Mary Hays, Charlotte Lennox, Hannah More, Scarlett Thomas, and Mary Wollstonecraft. As part of her research in Digital Humanities, she has published articles on female characters in videogames and women writers online. She is the editor of a volume on rewritings of Frankenstein (2018), which places particular emphasis on film, television, videogames, and e-lit.

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