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Aphra Behn Aphra Behn Janet M. Todd "Aphra Behn's work has always been subject to critical and moral fashion and her literary reputation has only recently been secured, especially by feminist and new historicist critics. The essays col… OL18240215W
Reading Susan Sontag Reading Susan Sontag Carl E. Rollyson,Carl Rollyson "Each of the chapters in Reading Susan Sontag is devoted to one of her books and is divided into three sections: synopsis, Ms. Sontag's own views of her work, and critical commentary. Thus it moves f… OL1861818W
Fictions of dissent Fictions of dissent Sigrid Anderson Cordell Fin de siecle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creat… OL19849884W
A literature of their own A literature of their own Elaine Showalter A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation,… OL2041593W
Privileging Gender in Early Modern England Privileging Gender in Early Modern England J. R. Brink "The essays in this volume focus on the issue of gender as it relates to texts written by and about women in early modern England. Among the issues considered are the boundaries between private and p… OL20913881W
A multitude of women A multitude of women Stefania Lucamante "A Multitude of Women looks at the ways in which both Italian literary tradition and external factors have influenced Italian women writers in rethinking the theoretical and aesthetic ties between au… OL2228379W
Critical essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning Critical essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning Donaldson This is a collection of critical essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's works by Sandra Donaldson, Alethea Hayter, Mary Jane Lupton, Flavia Alaya, Cora Kaplan, Helen Cooper, Kathleen Hickok, and othe… OL24153225W
A Zora Neale Hurston companion A Zora Neale Hurston companion Robert W. Croft "Anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is one of the most significant African American writers of the 20th century. Born in Alabama, she grew up in a small town in Florida, where s… OL2709677W
Les femmes qui écrivent vivent dangereusement Les femmes qui écrivent vivent dangereusement Laure Adler En dressant le portrait d'une cinquantaine d'auteures liées par la même soif d'écriture, depuis le Moyen Age (Hildegarde de Bingen) jusqu'à aujourd'hui (Toni Morrison), cet ouvrage montre que les obs… OL28589851W
The Promised Land? The Promised Land? Lorna Martens "From the 1960s on, women writers in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), including Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, Sarah Kirsch, Brigitte Reimann, Charlotte Worgitzky, Lia Pirskawetz, and Maya Wien… OL2961019W
As she likes it As she likes it Penny Gay As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique in both Shakespearian and feminist st… OL3143534W
Boss ladies, watch out! Boss ladies, watch out! Terry Castle "Boss Ladies, Watch Out! brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's many books an… OL3275589W
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
Victorian women's fiction Victorian women's fiction Shirley Foster Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemp… OL3531688W
My wars are laid away in books My wars are laid away in books Alfred Habegger "Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson's growth - a story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production.". "Building on the work of … OL3953380W
Pearl S. Buck Pearl S. Buck Paul A. Doyle A literary critic's evaluation of Pearl Buck's works, and a description of her work. OL5092255W
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
Writing the pioneer woman Writing the pioneer woman Janet Floyd "Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American… OL5955941W
Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith Paula Gallant Eckard "Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power h… OL5957296W
A vice for voices A vice for voices Marietta Messmer "Despite her reputation as a reclusive poet, Emily Dickinson wrote more than one thousand "letters to the world," engaging in lively epistolary conversations with close to one hundred correspondents.… OL6208355W
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