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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction (Lori M. Campbell) -- I. Pathfinders: Empowered Women from Romance and Folktale to the Birth of Modern Fantasy -- Strategic Silences: Voiceless Heroes in Fairy Tales (Jeana Jorgensen) -- Neglected Yet Noble: Nyneve and Female Heroism in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (Kristin Bovaird-Abbo) -- "Radiant and terrible": Tolkien's Heroic Women as Correctives to the Romance and Epic Traditions (Jack M. Downs) -- Female Valor Without Renown: Memory, Mourning and Loss at the Center of Middle-earth (Sarah Workman) -- II. Underestimated Overachievers: Unlikely and Unstoppable Female Heroes -- "Weak as woman's magic": Empowering Care Work in Ursula Le Guin's Tehanu (Erin Wyble Newcomb) -- "Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky": Neil Gaiman's Extraordinarily Ordinary Coraline (Melissa Wehler) -- Dancing with the Public: Alethea Kontis's Enchanted, Rachel Hartman's Seraphina and Marissa Meyer's Cinder (Casey A. Cothran) -- "This huntress who delights in arrows": The Female Archer in Children's Fiction (Zoe Jaques) -- III. Show-Stealers: Heroic Female Sidekicks and Helpers -- Sublime Shape-Shifters and Uncanny Other-Selves: Identity and Multiplicity in Diana Wynne Jones's Female Heroes (Apolline Lucyk) -- A New Kind of Hero: A Song of Ice and Fire's Brienne of Tarth (John H. Cameron) -- And Her Will Be Done: The Girls Trump the Boys in The Keys to the Kingdom and Abhorsen Series by Garth Nix (Lori M. Campbell) -- IV. Unwilling Do-Gooders: Villains and Villain-Heroes -- The Problem of Mrs. Coulter: Vetting the Female Villain-Hero in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Amanda M. Greenwell) -- "All little girls are terrible": Maud as Anti-Villain in Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Jill Marie Treftz) |
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The Unbreakable Vow: Maternal Impulses and Narcissa Malfoy's Transformation from Villain to Hero in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series (Sarah Margaret Kniesler) -- Conclusion (Lori M. Campbell) -- About the Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"The essays seek to define the unique qualities of female heroism in literary fantasy from 1950s through the present and provide a multi-faceted view of an important fantasy character type who begins to demonstrate a significant presence only in the latter 20th century. The essays contribute to the empowerment and development of the female hero"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fantasy fiction, English -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Fantasy fiction, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Women heroes in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Fantasy fiction, American
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Fantasy fiction, English
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Women heroes in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Campbell, Lori M., editor
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| ISBN |
9781476617633 |
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1476617635 |
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1306873096 |
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9781306873093 |
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