1st Edition
The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath
By Claire Raymond
Copyright 2006
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous voice.'This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Spectral gardens: pastoral tradition and feminine self-elegy; Lethe's shore: Mary Shelley's sacred horror; Eating eternally deeper: the posthumous voice in Wuthering Heights; Emily Dickinson as the unnamed, buried child; Rossetti's late suitors: the death lyrics and the speaking body; Hooks and ladders: Sylvia Plath's 'The Rabbit Catcher'; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr Claire Raymond is an Independent Scholar from the USA.
'[Claire Raymond] is capable of stating complex ideas with admirable clarity... Raymond is to be commended for her unusually complete index, which is a decided benefit to anyone wishing to track a particular strand of her argument.' Brontë Studies ’Raymond's book fills a significant gap in the study of 'feminine' elegy... provokes valuable questions concerning genre, subjectivity and, perhaps most importantly, the role of the literary audience.’ BARS Bulleting and Review
