Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Janet Frame in Focus
Women Analyze the Works of the New Zealand Writer
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924–2004) during her lifetime published 11 novels, three collections of short stories, a volume of poetry and a children’s book. The details of her life—her tragic early years, her confinement in a psychiatric hospital and her miraculous reprieve—overshadow...
Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals)
Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral...
by Mary Evans
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Jane Austen is often associated with conservatism and her novels are often seen as light entertainment depicting a vanished world and its manners.
Mary Evan's study, first published in 1987, seeks to contradict the conventional wisdom regarding Austen's social and political leanings and argues...
The Matrimonial Trap
Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously...
The Religion of Empire
Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism is the first full-length study devoted to interpreting Blake’s three long poems, showing the ways in which the Bible, myth, and politics merge in his prophetic symbolism. In this book, G. A. Rosso examines the themes of...
Nabokov's Women
The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov’s relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov’s women: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness,...
Ellen Glasgow
Beyond Convention
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
For many years Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow has been regarded as a classic American regional novelist. But Glasgow is far more than a Southern writer, as Linda Wagner demonstrates in this fascinating reassessment of her work.A Virginia lady, Glasgow began to write at a time when the highest...
Mujeres en tránsito
Viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830-1910)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Mujeres en transito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamerica (1810-1930) parte de la incidencia que los relatos de viaje (extranjeros y locales) tuvieron en la formacion discursiva de las sociedades sudamericanas. El texto revisa la limitada consideracion que ha recibido la escritura femenina dentro...
Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)
Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed idea of "women’s proper sphere"....
Indiana de George Sand (Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis)
(Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016
L' histoire littéraire classe volontiers Indiana dans une première période de la production romanesque de George Sand, le « romantisme sentimental ». Il est vrai que l'on peut opposer, non sans schématisme, de part et d'autre de l'engagement socialiste de George Sand, les romans de jeunesse,...
Consenting victims
The polygamy drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Consenting victims is the story of Olivia, a young african woman who believes that love is between one man and one woman, despite the fact that she lives in a country where polygamy is legitimate.
Olivia leaves an unfaithful husband to marry a widow who, unfortunately, proves to be as...
Betwixt and Between
The Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Betwixt and Between identifies the biases, errors and ambiguities that have run rampant in the biographies on Mary Wollstonecraft, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Brenda Ayres investigates the agenda, problems and strengths of eighteen critical biographies,...
Women Writing Cloth
Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in a range of American novels across centuries. Bona demonstrates how four authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice...
Novelist Tagore
Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologizing...