This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentation—of style, mode, voice, genre and language—has enabled women writers to be simultaneously creative and critical, engaged in and yet apart from...
Table of Content
1. Introduction.- 2. ‘Unlink the Chain’: Experiment in Aphra Behn’s Novels.- 3. Experiment in Prose: Authority and Experience ...
About the author
Kate Aughterson is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK, specializing in women’s writing and early modern drama. Her ...