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‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

Writing Women’s Identities

By: Ulrike Tancke

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‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

Writing Women’s Identities

By: Ulrike Tancke

Early modern women writers are typically studied as voices from the margin, who engage in a counter-discourse to patriarchy and whose identities prefigure postmodern notions of fragmented selfhood. Studying a variety of literary forms – autobiographical writings, diaries, mothers’ advice books, poetry and drama – this innovative book approaches early modern women’s strategies of identity formation from an alternative angle: their self-writings should be understood as attempts to establish a coherent, stable and convincing subjectivity in spite of the constraints they encountered. While the authors acknowledge contradiction and ambiguity, they consistently strive to compromise and achieve balance. Drawing on social and cultural history, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, the close reading of the women’s texts and other, literary and non-literary sources reveals that the female writers seek to reconcile the affective, corporeal, social, economic and ideological dimensions of their identities and thereby question both the modern idea of the unified self and its postmodern, fragmented variant. The women’s identities as writers, mothers, spouses, household members and economic agents testify to their acceptance of contradictions, their adherence to patriarchal norms and simultaneous self-assertion. Their pragmatic stances suggest that their simultaneous confidence and anxiety should be taken seriously, as tentative, precarious, yet ultimately workable and convincing expressions of identity.

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9042028092

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Deceptive Fictions

Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing

By: Ulrike Tancke

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Deceptive Fictions

Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing

By: Ulrike Tancke

Deceptive Fictions: Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing explores the widespread narrative concern with trauma and violence, and their interactions with identity, meaning, ethics, history, memory and various other related issues in a selection of novels by prolific contemporary British and Irish writers. Interrogating the strategic functions of trauma and violence, the book argues that these texts can be read as counter-narratives to, or a backlash against, still-prevalent critical paradigms informed by poststructuralist and postmodern thought. Trauma and violence are invoked as narrative tools to communicate the centrality of the body and of biological and material constraints on human actions. This emphasis on reality and the experiential ties in with the novels’ consistent focus on the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning. In so doing, they signal a move in contemporary fiction towards a textual practice that can most fruitfully be approached along the lines of an individualistic, evolutionary, corporeal and experiential narratology, which self-consciously reflects on the manipulative potentials of narrative.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing

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Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing

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‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

Writing Women’s Identities

By: Ulrike Tancke

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‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

Writing Women’s Identities

By: Ulrike Tancke

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‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

Deceptive Fictions

Deceptive Fictions

Deceptive Fictions

Deceptive Fictions

‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

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