Women Authors category: 700 books
by Aubrey Tang, Fang-yu Li, Yenna Wu
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Li Ang (1952–) is a famous and prolific feminist writer from Taiwan who challenges and subverts sociocultural traditions through her daring explorations of sex, violence, women’s bodies and desire, and national politics. As a taboo-breaking writer and social critic, she uses fiction to expose...
Shelter Me
When Friendship is all that Remains
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
SHELTER ME intertwines the tribulations of young versus old, love verses dependency, good losses versus bad when two women are thrown into a friendship by events beyond their control. They teach each other to empower their own lives, leave the past behind and embrace their own new future....
Textual Liberation (Routledge Revivals)
European Feminist Writing in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from a number of countries and highlighting...
Fictions of Dissent
Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women's Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Fin-de-siècle 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 creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic conversation about aesthetic practice and creative ownership.
Discipline
by Mary Brunton
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Discipline,the second novel by the Scottish writer Mary Brunton (1778-1818), was published in 1814. While less well known than its predecessor Self-Control (1811), it is nonetheless equally deserving of a central place in the canon of Romantic-era fiction. A wide-ranging novel, it shares many themes...
by Jennifer Kloester
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The groundbreaking biography of one of the world's best-loved and bestselling authors
Who was the real Georgette Heyer?
Georgette Heyer famously said, "I am to be found in my work."
Who was this amazing writer who was so secretive about her personal life that she never...
Home Ground and Foreign Territory
Essays on Early Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim of reassessing the field, unearthing neglected...
inklings Jahrbuch fuer Literatur und Aesthetik
Die Inklings und der Erste Weltkrieg Symposium 17. und 18. September in Aachen
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
«Inklings» nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und ihnen nahestehender Autoren sowie...
by Merja Makinen
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This Reader's Guide brings together, in an approachable form, the range of review and critical material on the novels of Jeanette Winterson. Covering all of Winterson's work, from Oranges are Not the Only Fruit to The PowerBook, Merja Makinen traces the early review reception of each novel on its...
The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Volume One: A Life in Print
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles significant rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors throughout her high-profile career and after her death. Each of its three volumes gathers pieces published all over the world to set the stage for a much-needed reassessment...
Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals)
The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In examining how three authors – Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot – depict the mind...
by Anais Nin
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This anthology is a collection of work that has appeared during the 15 year run of the only literary journal dedicated to famed author/diarist Anais Nin (1903-1977). Included are diary passages and correspondence by Nin and her contemporaries, including Henry Miller and Alfred Perles; critical essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Modernism and Masculinity investigates the varied dimensions and manifestations of masculinity in the modernist period. Thirteen essays from leading scholars reframe critical trends in modernist studies by examining distinctive features of modernist literary and cultural work through the lens of masculinity...
by Lee Maracle
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast...