Reviews for The Politics of the Feminist Novel, Vol. 63

The average rating for The Politics of the Feminist Novel, Vol. 63 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-07-29 00:00:00 William J Rulo Slightly mixed feelings about this one. It's a series of essays which at times seem to be somewhat thinly researched - for instance, the essay about Rex Stout which claims in passing that there were no significant fictional women sleuths in the 1930s, which is just not true. What about Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver and Gladys Mitchell's Mrs Bradley, for starters? However, that clanger aside, the article about Rex Stout is actually very good, looking at how Wolfe and Archie work together and their different literary heritage, and how complete the characters are in the first book. I've read the chapters which deal with books I've read, but am now abandoning this for the time being until I read more of the novels it covers.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-05 00:00:00 Vaibhav Sharma A French perspective on what was an enormous boom in fiction in the Usofa, post-1960. Running up to 1989-ish and thus not assimilating the post-1987 generation (WTV, DFW, et al). Chénetier begins his story with Hawkes and Gaddis. So you know what course he will steer ; relegating many of those popular/famous names to the pre-60s generation. And I rejoyce to see so many discussions of novels pub'd by Fiction Collective & FC2 ; which makes this volume a great source for your unEARTH'ing activities. Cites frequently from Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists and wraps up with Bakhtin, so you know he knows what a novel is.