What is it about?

This is the first full-length study in English of Jeanette Winterson’s fictional works, offering detailed analysis of her eight novels as well as addressing her non-fiction and minor fictional work. Susana Onega combines the study of formal issues such as narrative structure, perspective and point of view with thematic analyses approached from a variety of theoretical perspectives, from narratology and feminist theory to Hermetic and Cabalistic symbolism, to provide a comprehensive ‘vertical’ analysis of Winterson’s fictions.

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Why is it important?

It provides a comprehensive overview of her works that contribute to characterise the writer within the contemporary English canon and her relationship to Modernism, Postmodernism and lesbian fiction, among others

Perspectives

I think this book is a useful tool for the understanding of the complexity of Jeanette Winterson's work and a necessary reading for PhD students working on this author. The book was shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English Book Award (Literature and Literary Criticism), 2008.

Professor Susana Onega
University of Zaragoza

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This page is a summary of: Jeanette Winterson, June 2006, Manchester University Press,
DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719068386.001.0001.
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