Women Writers and Experimental Narratives

lt;p>Kate Aughterson is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK, specializing in women's writing and early modern drama. Her books include Renaissance Woman (1995), Webster: The Tragedies (2001), Aphra Behn: The Comedies (2003), Shakespeare: The Late Plays (2013) and she is co-author of Jim Crace: Into the Wilderness (2018) and Shakespeare and Gender (2020).

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 Maï 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?.