Nell Osborne
Biographic Data
| ID | 6814167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nell Osborne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nell |
| FAMILY NAME | Osborne |
| SIGNATURE | OSBORNE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“I’m telling you to stop’: Staging the drama of rape, experiment and sexual consent in Ann Quin’s Three and Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat
This article considers experimental literary strategies alongside depictions of male sexual violence in work by two British women writers: The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark (1970) and Three by Ann Quin (1966). It reframes these novels’ particular interest in staging the drama of rape as literary experiment alongside the feminist struggle to articulate and theorise women’s restricted agency in the context of sexuality. I consider how violent avant…
Contemporary Feminist Life Writing: The New Audacity
Marie Calloway’s what purpose did i serve in your life? (2013) recounts a series of sexual experiences with older men – consensual encounters guided by the men’s violent and humiliatory fantasies. If, as Jennifer Cooke writes, what is “indisputably clear is that Calloway is fascinated by how men respond to female vulnerability” (117), her other motivations remain audaciously unclear, inciting what Cooke calls the “quagmire of feminist feuding” (1…
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“I’m telling you to stop’: Staging the drama of rape, experiment and sexual consent in Ann Quin’s Three and Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat
This article considers experimental literary strategies alongside depictions of male sexual violence in work by two British women writers: The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark (1970) and Three by Ann Quin (1966). It reframes these novels’ particular interest in staging the drama of rape as literary experiment alongside the feminist struggle to articulate and theorise women’s restricted agency in the context of sexuality. I consider how violent avant…
Contemporary Feminist Life Writing: The New Audacity
Marie Calloway’s what purpose did i serve in your life? (2013) recounts a series of sexual experiences with older men – consensual encounters guided by the men’s violent and humiliatory fantasies. If, as Jennifer Cooke writes, what is “indisputably clear is that Calloway is fascinated by how men respond to female vulnerability” (117), her other motivations remain audaciously unclear, inciting what Cooke calls the “quagmire of feminist feuding” (1…
Art (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 works)