The Body that Writes: Gender, Class and the Abject Female Body in Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (2013)
Hannah Kent’s debut novel Burial Rites (2013) is a historical true-crime novel that recovers the story of a female perpetrator, Agnes Magnúsdóttir, sentenced to death for her part in a gruesome double murder in nineteenth-century Iceland. This article reads Kent’s novel, which draws on painstaking r...
| Published in: | C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Open Library of the Humanities
2023
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/c21.8215 https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/8215/galley/23416/download/ |