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Emma Tennant

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Emma Tennant


Born
in London, England
October 20, 1937

Died
January 20, 2017

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson ...more


Since the early 1970s, when she was in her mid-thirties, Emma Tennant has been a prolific novelist and has established herself as one of the leading British exponents of "new fiction." This does not mean that she is an imitator of either the French nouveaux romanciers or the American post-modernists, although her work reveals an indebtedness to the methods and preoccupations of some of the latter. Like them, she employs parody and rewriting, is interested in the fictiveness of fiction, appropriates some science-fiction conventions, and exploits the possibilities of generic dislocation and mutation, especially the blending of realism and fantasy. Yet, although parallels can be cited and influences suggested, her work is strongly individual, ...more

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Average rating: 2.77 · 3,865 ratings · 662 reviews · 91 distinct works • Similar authors
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An Unequal Marriage
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The Bad Sister
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Elinor & Marianne
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The Autobiography of the Queen
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Two Women of London
2.95 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1989 — 9 editions
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Emma in Love
2.03 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions
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