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Book SynopsisWith contributions of scholars from Europe and North America, this book covers the representation of women in word and image in the context of changing frames of mentalities in two distinct periods - the Enlightenment and postmodernism. Subjects and artists/authors covered include prostitution, English and French art (Hogarth, Reynolds, Beardsley, Greuze), postmodern feminist theatre, recent fiction by Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood and Spanish literature. Special chapters deal with the construction of women in recent popular animated cartoons and computer games.
Table of ContentsRoy Porter, Fallen Women in the Eighteenth Century. - Thomas Krämer, Masquerade in No-Man’s-Land: The Representation of Women in »A Harlot’s Progress« - Angela H. Rosenthal, The Fall and Rise of Kitty Fisher. Joshua Reynolds and the Sitter’s Share. - Bernadette Fort, Framing the Wife. Jean Baptiste Greuze’s Sexual Contract. - Werner Wolf, Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and its Ambivalent Position in the ›Herstory‹ of Gender Roles: Cibber, »The Careless Husband«; Lillo, »Sylvia«; Richardson, »Pamela«. - James A.W. Heffernan, Love, Death, and Grotesquerie: Beardsley’s Illustrations in Wilde and Pope - Brigitte Glaser, Female Scientists/Women and Science: New Characters and Themes in British Drama - Sandra Carroll, Natural Born Quilter: Framing Grace Marks in Margaret Atwood’s »Alias Grace« - Peter Wagner, Cormac McCarthy’s Joycean Women or Epiphany Revisited - Ottmar Ette, Sex Literally Revisited: Being-a-Body and Having-a-Body in Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Luisa Futoransky and Juan Manuel de Prada. - Jan Hollm, Streamlining Multicultural Feminism: Shakespearean Traits in Disney’s »The Lion King« - Birgit Pretzsch, Questioning the Frames of Lara Croft. Body, Identity, Reality
