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Book Synopsis
This scholarly analysis of the seemingly incompatible elements of the subversive and the socially acceptable in Rice's early work tackles various aspects of Rice's conflicting portrayals of sexual issues, gender stereotypes and roles.

Trade Review
Captivating...superb." —Public Library Quarterly

"Indispensable." —Cercles

Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Fashioning the Author
  • 1. Interrogating the Vampire: Heterotextuality and Queer Reading
  • 2. Engendering Whiteness: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Class in The Feast of All Saints
  • 3. The Purloined Penis: Castration Anxiety in Cry to Heaven
  • 4. Violation and Sex Education: Beauty's Erotic Odyssey
  • 5. Exit to Eden: The Body, the Spectacle, and the Transgressive Space
  • 6. Prurient Painters and Pedophiles: Negotiating Consent in Belinda
  • 7. Rape Fantasies: Constructing a Masculine Prototype among the Mayfair Witches
  • Conclusion: Gender, Horror, and Popular Culture
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Anne Rice and Sexual Politics The Early Novels

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      Publisher: McFarland & Company
      Publication Date: 9/15/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786408467, 978-0786408467
      ISBN10: 0786408464

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This scholarly analysis of the seemingly incompatible elements of the subversive and the socially acceptable in Rice's early work tackles various aspects of Rice's conflicting portrayals of sexual issues, gender stereotypes and roles.

      Trade Review
      Captivating...superb." —Public Library Quarterly

      "Indispensable." —Cercles

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction: Fashioning the Author
      • 1. Interrogating the Vampire: Heterotextuality and Queer Reading
      • 2. Engendering Whiteness: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Class in The Feast of All Saints
      • 3. The Purloined Penis: Castration Anxiety in Cry to Heaven
      • 4. Violation and Sex Education: Beauty's Erotic Odyssey
      • 5. Exit to Eden: The Body, the Spectacle, and the Transgressive Space
      • 6. Prurient Painters and Pedophiles: Negotiating Consent in Belinda
      • 7. Rape Fantasies: Constructing a Masculine Prototype among the Mayfair Witches
      • Conclusion: Gender, Horror, and Popular Culture
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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