Women Authors category: 700 books
Personal Effects
Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Over the last twenty five years, scholarship on Early Modern women writers has produced editions and criticisms, both on various groups and individual authors. The work on Mary Wroth has been particularly impressive at integrating her poetry, prose and drama into the canon. This in turn has led to...
Seduction and Betrayal
Women and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work...
by Sarah Leggott
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual...
A Female Poetics of Empire
From Eliot to Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fiction’ debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction?
This volume links fictional, non-fictional and...
by R. Brimley Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
This 1919 volume features essays on four women novelists: Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Johnson argues that women writers have contributed to literature qualities lacking in writing by men. Chief among these qualities is a natural proclivity to domestic themes....
Reading In
Alice Munro’s Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer’s archive?
Collections of authors’ manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published text. JoAnn McCaig sets out to show how archival materials can also provide fascinating...
Labor and Desire
Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a discourse...
Wider Boundaries of Daring
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay,...
Changing Subjects
The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work. They describe the experiences that radicalised women within academia...
Shifting Subjects
Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
There are many different ways to say 'I.' This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (HZl_ne Cixous, Assia Djebar, Gis_le Halimi, and Julia Kristeva) have written their autobiographical 'I' as a plural concept. These women refuse the individual 'I' of traditional autobiography...
Autobiographical Voices
Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women’s autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices offers incisive readings of texts by Zora Neale...
by Catherine Kenney
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1991
One of the most fascinating comments often made about Dorothy l. Sayers is that she wrote “real” novels. Catherine Kenney considers why Sayers mysteries tend to strike astute readers this way, and in so doing, suggests her place not only in the history of detection, but in the larger tradition...
Surviving the Crossing
(Im)migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin explores the liberating and...