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Contemporary Women's Writing 2008 2(1):70-76; doi:10.1093/cww/vpn009
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Weighting Jeanette Winterson

Stephanie Harzewski

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Correspondence: sharzews@english.upenn.edu

Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Critical Guide. Sonya Andermahr, ed. 2007. Continuum, London, pp. 177. £40 hardback; £14.99 paperback

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Jeanette Winterson. Susana Onega. 2006. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 272. £50 hardback; £14.99 paperback

Perceived in the British media of the 1990s as the enfant terrible of contemporary fiction, a critical coming of age now greets Jeanette Winterson. A comprehensive overview of Winterson's transgressions with the media in the 1990s is beyond the scope of this review, but to recount the most infamous, she nominated her novel Written on the Body (1992) as her choice for the Telegraph Book of the Year list, and the following year selected The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, featuring her own work and edited by her former partner Margaret (Peggy) Reynolds. When invited in 1993 by the Sunday Times to nominate the greatest living writer, she declared it to be herself. On a Late Show special in 1994, Winterson, filmed striding around Highgate Cemetery, named herself the heir to Virginia Woolf, essentially . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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