Brian Moore s Eponymous Heroines

This feminist study of Brian Moore's five novels with eponymous heroines compares Moore's female characters to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, women in Victorian and modernist fiction, and women in the works of Canadian female writers. The book discusses Moore's biblical and film inspirations.

This feminist study is an innovative reassessment of Brian Moore's five novels featuring eponymous heroines. The author reviews previous interpretations, exposing their sexist bias. Highlighting Moore's empathetic insights, she also discusses the novelist's limitations. She compares Moore's heroines to Flaubert's Emma Bovary, reinterpreted by Mieke Bal, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina revisioned by Aritha van Herk, and to female characters created by Canadian women writers. Rejecting biocriticism, the study focuses on Moore's biblical, Victorian and modernist inspirations, and his indebtedness to film. Ideas of female thinkers illuminate the condition of Moore's female protagonists.

Autorentext

Dorota Filipczak teaches at the University of ód , Poland and has published extensively on Canadian and British writers. She founded and runs Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. She is the author of seven books of poetry and a member of the Association of Polish Writers.

Klappentext

This feminist study is an innovative reassessment of Brian Moore s five novels featuring eponymous heroines. The author reviews previous interpretations, exposing their sexist bias. Highlighting Moore s empathetic insights, she also discusses the novelist s limitations. She compares Moore s heroines to Flaubert s Emma Bovary, reinterpreted by Mieke Bal, Tolstoy s Anna Karenina revisioned by Aritha van Herk, and to female characters created by Canadian women writers. Rejecting biocriticism, the study focuses on Moore s biblical, Victorian and modernist inspirations, and his indebtedness to film. Ideas of female thinkers illuminate the condition of Moore s female protagonists.

Inhalt

Feminist criticism - Representations of women in literature - Women in the Bible -Comparative literature - Female and feminist thinkers - Stereotyping - Gender issue - Sexually specific violence - Stalking - Women and colonialism - Women in Northern Ireland - Contemporary Canadian literature - British literature (Victorian and modernist)