This book explores the history of womenOs engagement with writing experimentally.aWomen writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a wayaof critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at theasame time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentationof style,amode, voice, genre and languagehas enabled women writers to beasimultaneously creative and critical, engaged in and yet apart from stories andacultures that have so often seen them as NotherO. This collection shows thatawomen writers in English over the past 400 years have challenged those ideas notaonly through explicit polemic and alternative representations but throughadisrupting the very modes of representation and story itself.
1. Introduction.- 2. 'Unlink the Chain': Experiment in Aphra Behn's Novels.- 3. Experiment in Prose: Authority and Experience in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters.- 4. Experiments, Experimentalists, Experimentation: Dissecting Frankenstein.- 5. Genre-Bending and Experimentation in Sensation Fiction; The Case of Mary Braddon and Ellen Wood.- 6. The Ironic Strategies of Kate Chopin's The Awakening.- 7. Realms of Resemblance: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Mai Zetterling.- 8. Neo-Victorian Experimental Narrative: Writing the Absent Objects of History in Affinity and In the Red Kitchen.- 9. 1966 and Wide Sargasso Sea: The Climate that Made Jean Rhys Legible.- 10. Troublesome reading: story and speculation in African American and African originated women's writing. Resurrecting the past, re-imagining the future.- 11. 'She's a Fine Girl': An Autotheoretical Examination of Early Experiences of Sexuality and Selfhood in Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing and Charlotte Roche's Wetlands.- 12. Helen Oyeyemi at the Vanguard of Innovation in Contemporary Black British Women's Literature.- 13. 'Daring to tilt worlds': the fiction of Irenosen Okojie.- 14. Working from the Wound: Trauma, memory and experimental writing praxis in Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?.
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