Women Authors category: 700 books
Latin American Women Writers
A Resource Guide to Titles in English
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
There is a wealth of published literature in English by Latin American women writers, but such material can be difficult to locate due to the lack of available bibliographic resources. In addition, the various types of published narrative (short stories, novels, novellas, autobiographies, and biographies)...
by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Are you wondering where your next epic fantasy read will come from? How about steampunk, science fiction, or urban fantasy? If you're interested in discovering new books and authors, this guide will help you. Sandra Ulbrich Almazan combines her own reading experiences, general information about over...
The Political Woman in Print
German Womens Writing 18451919
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This book analyses the depiction and function of politically active women in novels by six female authors from the margins of the democratic revolution of 1848 and the first German women’s movement: Louise Aston, Malwida von Meysenbug, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Fanny Lewald, Louise Otto-Peters,...
Women and Power in Argentine Literature
Stories, Interviews, and Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The astonishing talent of Argentine women writers belies the struggles they have faced—not merely as overlooked authors, but as women of conviction facing oppression. The patriarchal pressures of the Pern years, the terror of the Dirty War, and, more recently, the economic collapse that gripped the...
Edging Women Out
Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist...
Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales
Nation, Gender, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The first volume in the new series Gender Studies in Wales, this book argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian periods. "Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing...
American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870
A Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the approximately...
Medical Imagery and Fragmentation
Modernism, Scientific Discourse, and the Mexican/Indigenous Body, 1870–1940s
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This Book marks a time period (1870s-1940s) when Mexican authors writing in English saw themselves as transnational authors whose role was to teach the English speaking public about Mexico. This book takes a look at four inspiring women whose ideas represent the way medicine and science permeated...
by Sirpa Salenius
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
American Authors Reinventing Italy: The Writings of Exceptional Nineteenth-Century Women is a collection of scholarly papers that examine Italy in the writings of such American women as Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Edith Wharton. The introduction provides...
Women Constructing Men
Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750 - 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters_heroes and villains_as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany,...
by Dorri Beam
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
In this 2010 book, 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 authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through...
Germaine de Staël in Germany
Gender and Literary Authority (1800–1850)
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Germaine de Staël and German Women: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Staël's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of German women, including Caroline A. Fischer, Caroline Pichler, Johanna Schopenhauer, Bettina von Arnim,...
Rhetorical Drag
Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literature
In this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This edited volume is the first to reflect on the theory and practice of editing women’s writing of the 18th century. The list of contributors includes experts on the fiction, drama, poetry, life-writing, diaries and correspondence of familiar and lesser known women, including Jane Austen, Delarivier...