Darcys Utopia

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480412511
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darcy's Utopia written by Fay Weldon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally bestselling author of The Hearts and Lives of Men and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil comes a novel that asks a provocative question: If you ruled the world, what would you do? Eleanor Darcy has come up in the world. With her second husband in prison for financial crimes against the nation, she is a media sensation. A self-professed “feminist of the socialist variety,” Eleanor grants an exclusive interview to Hugh Vansitart and Valerie Jones, a pair of ambitious journalists. Her vision of the future includes the abolition of money and society-approved procreation, a world in which “all men will believe in God and be capable of love.” During the course of their interviews, Hugh and Valerie succumb to some erotic impulses of their own, while Eleanor goes on to become patron saint of the Darcian Movement. From the storyteller who is constantly measuring the moral pulse of men and women, Darcy’s Utopia is an uproarious and subversive riff on the age-old battle of the sexes.

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : New York : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670836451
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darcy's Utopia written by Fay Weldon and published by New York : Viking. This book was released on 1991 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From humble beginnings, Eleanor Darcy rises to a position from which she can influence society's outlook on such intractable issues as abortion, integration, economics, and sex--simply by whispering in her powerful husband's ear

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8711450495
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darcys utopia written by Fay Weldon and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Darcys utopia giver Fay Weldon et provokerende blik på det moderne samfund vævet ind i en fortælling om sprængfarlig kærlighed og, måske endda, sort magi. Den engelske forfatter Fay Weldon (f. 1931) har gennem hele sit forfatterskab skrevet med stor indlevelse, kærlighed og humor om kvindelivets kompleksitet i både essays, novellesamlinger og romaner, hvoraf over tyve er udkommet på dansk. Derudover har Weldon skrevet tv-dramatik, kulturjournalistik og en selvbiografi.

Author : Beate Neumeier
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042014374
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering Realism and Postmodernism written by Beate Neumeier and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles critical essays on, and excerpts from, works of contemporary women writers in Britain. Its focus is the interaction of aesthetic play and ethical commitment in the fictional work of women writers whose interest in testing and transgressing textual boundaries is rooted in a specific awareness of a gendered multicultural reality. This position calls for a distinctly critical impetus of their writing involving the interaction of the political and the literary as expressed in innovative combinations of realist and postmodern techniques in works by A. S. Byatt, Maureen Duffy, Zoe Fairbairns, Eva Figes, Penelope Lively, Sara Maitland, Suniti Namjoshi, Ravinder Randhawa, Joan Riley, Michele Roberts, Emma Tennant, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson. All contributions to this volume address aspects of these writers' positions and techniques with a clear focus on their interest in transgressing boundaries of genre, gender and (post)colonial identity. The special quality of these interpretations, first given in the presence of writers at a symposium in Potsdam, derives from the creative and prosperous interactions between authors and critics. The volume concludes with excerpts from the works of the participating writers which exemplify the range of concrete concerns and technical accomplisments discussed in the essays. They are taken from fictional works by Debjani Chatterjee, Maureen Duffy, Zoe Fairbairns, Eva Figes, Sara Maitland, and Ravinder Randhawa. They also include the creative interactions of Suniti Namjoshi and Gillian Hanscombe in their joint writing and Paul Magrs' critical engagement with Sara Maitland.

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783423121286
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darcys Utopia written by Fay Weldon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Donawerth
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815626190
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopian and Science Fiction by Women written by Jane Donawerth and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing with the more contemporary feminist fictions of Le Guin, Wittig, Piercy, and Mitchison. It shows that these fictions historically speak to each other and together amount to a literary tradition of women's writing about a better place."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Mara E. Reisman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498581277
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture written by Mara E. Reisman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture: Challenging Cultural and Literary Conventions offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon’s major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon’s fiction engages with controversial moral, social, and political issues. This book provides an in-depth examination of the relationship between Weldon’s fiction and the contemporary feminist, cultural, and literary movements in Britain. Representative works from each decade speak to the multiple controversies and challenges to convention in which Weldon and her books played key roles. Drawing on Weldon’s personal history, fiction, and nonfiction as well as on historical, sociological, and literary documents, this book builds a cultural framework in which to understand Weldon’s work and the critical response to it. It shows that although Weldon’s battleground may change with the times, her ability and desire to provoke controversy remain constant as she continues to question and upset social, literary, and cultural conventions.

Author : Peter Marks
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030886549
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures written by Peter Marks and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions and key primary works, evaluates the most recent research, and outlines contemporary debates. Literatures of Africa, Australia, China, Latin America, and the Middle East are discussed in this global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume.

Author : Bree Hadley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351254669
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media written by Bree Hadley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies – including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and disability law – and disability arts, culture, and media studies has developed. The two fields have worked in tandem to offer critique of representations of disability in dominant cultural systems, institutions, discourses, and architecture, and develop provocative new representations of what it means to be disabled. Divided into 5 sections: Disability, Identity, and Representation Inclusion, Wellbeing, and Whole-of-life Experience Access, Artistry, and Audiences Practices, Politics and the Public Sphere Activism, Adaptation, and Alternative Futures this handbook brings disability arts, disability culture, and disability media studies – traditionally treated separately in publications in the field to date – together for the first time. It provides scholars, graduate students, upper level undergraduate students, and others interested in the disability rights agenda with a broad-based, practical and accessible introduction to key debates in the field of disability art, culture, and media studies. An internationally recognised selection of authors from around the world come together to articulate the theories, issues, interests, and practices that have come to define the field. Most critically, this book includes commentaries that forecast the pressing present and future concerns for the field as scholars, advocates, activists, and artists work to make a more inclusive society a reality.

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504055152
Total Pages : 1145 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Novels Volume Three written by Fay Weldon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 1145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four razor-sharp satires from a Man Booker Prize nominee who chronicles the battle of the sexes with “infectious, wicked glee” (Chicago Tribune). The beloved author of The Life and Loves of a She Devil sends up marriage, 1950s London, fad diets, celebrity feminists, and Doctor Faustus, proving once again that she is “the social and sexual soothsayer of our literary times” (Company). The Fat Woman’s Joke: A novel about sex, food, marriage, and the indignities of the 1960s. After a lifetime of gorging herself, Esther Wells has an epiphany: She and her husband are going on a diet. Dedicated foodies throughout their marriage, they are about to discover what happens when new passions supplant old. “[Weldon is] an insightful and persuasive social commentator with an exhilarating mind.” —Susan Isaacs, author of Compromising Positions Down Among the Women: In 1950s London, Scarlet was raised by her mother—a former radical who left her husband to be fiercely independent. But at twenty, Scarlet has already had one abortion, and is about to become a single mother to the child she’s naming Byzantia. Over the course of twenty years, Scarlet and her friends will discover it’s never too late to become the women they are meant to be. “[A] stinging, brilliant comic novel.” —The Christian Science Monitor Growing Rich: Carmen is sixteen when Bernard Bellamy spies her from the back seat of his big, black BMW. He’s just made a bargain with Mephistopheles: his mortal soul in exchange for the fulfillment of his desires. As time passes, inexplicable things happen to Carmen and her friends. But she’s determined to hang on to her soul, no matter what obstacles—or temptations—are erected in her path. Will she succumb? Only the devil knows . . . “Glorious entertainment.” —Women’s Journal Darcy’s Utopia: With her husband in prison for financial crimes, Eleanor Darcy is a media sensation. A self-professed “feminist of the socialist variety,” she grants an interview to a pair of journalists. During the course of their conversations, two journalists find themselves on a life-changing journey as Eleanor spins her vision of a future where money is abolished and “all men will believe in God and be capable of love.” “A dazzling tour de force from one of Britain’s most inspiring and intelligent novelists.” —Cosmopolitan