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Tag Archives: feminist literature

Blockbuster Feminism: Peyton Place

By Bloomsbury | November 2, 2012
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(Grace Metalious rejected the formal studio photograph publishers provided choosing instead, a photo by local New Hampshire photographer Larry Smith for the book jacket of Peyton Place – 1956, Larry Smith, Laconia Evening Citizen) In December 1956, a few months after the publication of her novel Peyton Place, Grace Metalious was invited to appear on… Read More »

Category: American Literature Women's Writing Tags: American bestseller, American Literature, bestselling novels, feminism, feminist literature, Grace Metalious, Jackie Susann, literary bestsellers, Mike Wallace, Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers, Nancy Hewitt, Night Beat, Peyton Place, Sarah Churchwell, Terry Eagleton, Thomas Ruys Smith

“Isn’t it Every Girl’s Dream to be Married in White?” – Angela Carter’s Gothic Bride

By Bloomsbury | October 30, 2012
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Angela Carter’s Bridal Gothic

Category: Contemporary Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Tags: Angela Carter, Bloomsbury, Bridal Gothic, Charles Dickens, contemporary literature, Continuum, feminist literature, Gothic, Gothic horror, Gothic Literature, Gothic trope, Great Expectations, Halloween, Heroes and Villains, Lawrence Phillips, literary studies, Miss Havisham, Notes for a Theory of Sixties Style, Sonya Andermahr, The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve feminism, Wuthering Heights
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