Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Frankel, Valerie Estelle, 1980-

Description

1. 164 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "Both show and books address many issues most series shy away from--breast feeding, abortion, birth control. As the heroes encounter all the complications of a marriage, along with life in their wider community, they make discoveries about gender that resonate with all their fans here in the modern world.]"--

Subject

1. Identity (Psychology) on television
2. Sex role in literature
3. Sex role on television
4. Identity (Psychology) in literature
5. Race on television
6. Outlander (Television program)
7. Gabaldon, Diana > Outlander novels
8. Race in literature

Contents

1. Part 1: Questions of diversity -- Privilege and pity: Jamie on slavery, racism and disability / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Culloden and Wounded Knee: genocide, identity and cultural survival / Sandi Solis -- Claire kens well: appropriation and itinerant performance in Outlander onscreen / Elizabeth Elaine Tavares -- Part 2: Eighteenth-century masculinity gazing at Jamie Fraser / Araceli R. Lopez -- Jamie's "others": complicating masculinity and heroism through his foils / Jennifer Phillips -- Being Lord John: homosexual life in Georgian London / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Part 3: Women's choice for time travelers men, women and birth control in the early Outlander books / Nicole M. duPlessis -- The Beaton: healing as empowerment for Claire Beauchamp / Sarah Stegall -- Part 4: Claire as feminist, postfeminist, anti-feminist -- Reviewing linear time: history repeating all over again (now, against you) / Fernando Garbriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo G.A. Lando -- The way we were: nostalgia, romance and anti-feminism / Victoria Kennedy -- Outlander from book to screen: power in gender and orientation / Yvonne D. Leach -- -- Appendix A: Book reading order -- Appendix B: Television episode guide -- Appendix C: Television cast -- About the contributors.

Call number

1. JFE 16-11217

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Outlander's sassenachs : essays on gender, race, orientation and the other in the novels and television series / edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.

Publisher

1. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Frankel, Valerie Estelle, 1980- editor.

LCCN

1. 2016026571

ISBN

1. 9781476664248 (softcover : alk. paper)
2. 1476664242 (softcover : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 16-11217