Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"
Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Oksman draws a remarkable...
Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals
Destruction in this Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how literary themes in spirituals...
by Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1986
This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first...
Jane Eyre: Study Guide
Jane Eyre, Study Review Guide, Charlotte Brontë
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Don't want to read the actual book? Tired of reading super long reviews? This new study guide is perfect for you!! This study guide provides a short and concise review guide of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The guide includes: · A short summary of the...
Reading Women
How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it a mildly interesting relic from another era.” But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the suburbs, Staal rediscovered Betty Friedan's classic work-and was surprised how much she identified with...
by Virginia Woolf, Random House UK
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Harcourt is proud to introduce new annotated editions of three Virginia Woolf classics, ideal for the college classroom and beyond. For the first time, students reading these books will have the resources at hand to help them understand the text as well as the reasons and methods behind Woolf's writing....
The Lonely House
A Short Biography of Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits,...
A Study of Scarletts
Scarlett O'Hara and Her Literary Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
There are two portrayals of Scarlett O’Hara: the widely familiar one of the film Gone with the Wind and Margaret Mitchell’s more sympathetic character in the book. In A Study of Scarletts, Margaret D. Bauer examines these two characterizations, noting that although Scarlett O’Hara is just sixteen...
Inter-American Literary History
Six Critical Periods
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.
As a contribution to this field, this book brings together...
The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass
L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery’s books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery’s fiction, Epperly argues that Montgomery was much more than a master of...
Conceived in Modernism
The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control offers a new perspective on these debates by demonstrating that the political...
Grace Paley
Illuminating Dark Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create...
Locating Gender in Modernism
The Outsider Female
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range...
Literature and Error
A Literary Take on Mistakes and Errors
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Literature and Error comprises a series of essays by French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a theory that would argue for the productivity of errors and mistakes in literary works. While the "necessity of errors" has repeatedly been tackled from a philosophical angle, rarely...