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The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing
characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous
voice.'This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing
both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and
behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied
posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily
BrontA", Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath, Raymond's study sounds
out the ways that the trope of the posthumous voice succeeds in
negotiating the difficult cultural space between the concept of
woman's body and the production of canonical literature. Arguing
that the nineteenth-century cult of mourning opens to women's
writing the possibility of a post-Romantic 'self-elegy,' Raymond
explores how the woman writer's appropriation and alteration of
elegiac conventions signifies and revises her disrupted
relationship to audience. Theorizing the posthumous voice as a
gesture by which the woman writer claims, and in some cases gains,
canonicity, Raymond contends that the elegy posed as if written by
a dead woman for herself both describes and subverts the woman
writer's secondary status in the English canon. For the woman
writer, the self-elegy permits access to a topos central to
canonical literature, with the implementation of the trope of the
posthumous voice marking a crucial site of woman's interaction with
the English canon.
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