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Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine critically examines the representation of the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels and traces her emergence from the deviant women of Greek mythology and Shakespeare to the twenty-first century. It explores how the antiheroine shifts dependent on genre, time period, and format, demonstrating that she is capable of both challenging and reaffirming problematic ideologies surrounding women, power, violence, sexuality, and motherhood. Eleanore Gardner argues that the antiheroine is almost always defined by her experience of a patriarchal trauma and must therefore navigate her identity differently and more complexly than her antihero counterpart. The author examines a broad range of texts to understand the antiheroine's fluidity, her liminal and abject existence, and what these suggest about cultural anxieties surrounding transgressive women.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Contextualising the Antiheroine Figure in Western Literary History
- Chapter One: Archetypes, Heroes, and the Mythic Origins of the Antiheroine Figure
- Chapter Two: Literary Versus Television Iterations and an Ever-Evolving Definition
- Chapter Three: Exploring the Antiheroine’s Literary Ancestor: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Notions of Transgression
- Chapter Four: Politicising the Personal: The Antiheroine and the Women’s Liberation Movement
- Part Two: The Gothic Antiheroine: Defying Deviancy
- Chapter Five: The Female Gothic and Its Fresh Façade
- Chapter Six: Navigating the Antiheroine’s Internalised Misogyny: The Transformative Power of Female Friendship in Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride
- Chapter Seven: Engaging with the Gothic: Domestic Spaces, Female Friendships, and the Weaponisation of Motherhood in The Woman Upstairs, The Paper Wasp, and Eileen
- Part Three: Serial Killers, Abject Wives, and Avenging Punks: The Antiheroine’s Negotiation of Patriarchal Cycles of Violence in Crime-Thriller Fiction
- Chapter Eight: Rewriting the Victim Narrative and the Impact of Millennium
- Chapter Nine: ‘Three, and They Label You a Serial Killer’: Questions of Gender and Violence in My Sister, the Serial Killer
- Chapter Ten: The Maiming of the Body: Lisbeth, Amy, and Camille
- Chapter Eleven: Breaking the Cycle of Patriarchal Violence: Sisterly Rivalry, the New Femme Fatale, and Lisbeth Reborn in David Lagercrantz’s Millennium
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- About the Author