Visual Novel
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The Visual Novel situates the work of Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin and Brigid Brophy in relation to developments in the visual arts. Focusing on four forms recurring in the novels of these authors frames, circuits, flesh and crossings it outlines a trend of increasing visuality throughout the 1960s and 70s as Brooke-Rose, Quin and Brophy began to pose questions about literary and social forms, and the possible relationships between the two. With questions of form coming back into critical interest, Hilary White revisits the work of these decades to develop a new understanding of visuality as it relates to literary study and consider the potential for disrupting disciplinary space through writing and rewriting. As the first book to address the work of Brooke-Rose, Quin and Brophy in tandem, this volume asserts the continued relevance of these three important, but often overlooked, authors to discussions of visual form and (in)discipline in writing, aesthetics and politics.
Hilary White is a Research Ireland Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her current project, Forms of Sleep: Literary Experiments in Somnolence, focuses on experimental, sleep-centric literature and its intersections with sleep science. She is a co-editor of Gestures: A Body of Work (2024). An experimental novella, Holes, is published by Ma Bibliothèque (2024). She completed her PhD in 2021 at the University of Manchester. This research on visuality and experimental women’s writing was funded by the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership.