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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft Claudia L Johnson Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognised as a writer of formidable talent across a range of genres, including journalism, letters and travel wr… OL15176423W
Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing Dorri Beam "Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of … OL15537055W
Making a difference Making a difference Coppélia Kahn,Gayle Greene **From Amazon:** Feminist scholarship employs gender as a fundamental organizing category of human experience, holding two related premises: men and women have different perceptions or experiences… OL17943564W
Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot Nancy K. Gish,Cassandra Laity "This collection of new essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism, and early twentieth-century feminism in … OL18526908W
Cultural diversity in Latin American literature Cultural diversity in Latin American literature David William Foster "Foster continues the same line of study initiated in 1985 with the publication of Alternative voices in the Latin American narrative (see HLAS 48:5657). Questions body of literary criticism devoted … OL1863050W
At home in the world At home in the world Maria DiBattista In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engag… OL20052175W
Writing a woman's life Writing a woman's life Carolyn G. Heilbrun Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made i… OL2925380W
To write like a woman To write like a woman Joanna Russ From the back cover: Joanna Russ has written -- as novelist, short-story writer, and critic -- on science fiction, fantasy, and feminism. These essays reflect the breadth of Russ's critical work,… OL3332547W
Apologies to women Apologies to women Jill Mann 43 p. ; 19 cm OL3784081W
The woman in the red dress The woman in the red dress Minrose Gwin "Minrose C. Gwin's lyrical meditation on material, textual, and cultural space in women's literature covers a varied terrain, encompassing how space is configured and experienced in narrative and how… OL4782248W
Women, modernism and British poetry, 1910-1939 Women, modernism and British poetry, 1910-1939 Jane Dowson "This book primarily maps the poetry scene in Britain but identifies the significance of the network of writers between London, New York and Paris. It assesses women's participation in the diversity … OL5732986W
Replicas of a Female Prometheus Replicas of a Female Prometheus Lisabeth M. Hock "The relationship of the writer Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859) to the protagonists of her letter and conversation books has long intrigued readers and critics. The first sustained reading of Arnim's s… OL9621736W