Routledge Revivals: Literary Fat Ladies (1987)

<p>First published in 1987 the essays in this volume focus on questions of gender property and power in the use of rhetoric and the practice of literary genres and provide a historicised cultural critique. They analyse the links between rhetoric and property but also representations of women as unruly excessive teleology-breaking figures — intermeshing with feminist theory in the wake of Freud Lacan and Derrida. A wide variety of texts — from Genesis to Freud by way of Shakespeare Milton Rousseau and Emily Brontë — are examined held together by a concern for the entanglements of rhetorical questions of literary plotting hierarchy ideological framing and political consequence.</p>