Women Authors category: 700 books
Susan Glaspell
Her Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
"Venturesome feminist," historian Nancy Cott's term, perfectly describes Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), America's first important modern female playwright, winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and one of the most respected novelists and short story writers of her time. In her life she...
The Private History of the Court of England
by Sarah Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Whilst an important and under-researched example of women's writing, scholars of Romanticism and the nineteenth century will also find much value in this challenging political satire.
Ambiguous Discourse
Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection...
by Deborah Alcock
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
THE nineteenth century was still very young; its eventful day—that day whose sunset we have yet to see—had but lately dawned upon the world. There were regions, even in Europe, where, for any illumination brought them by the age, the hand of time might have been put back for centuries. In the...
The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit
Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous...
The Daughter’s Way
Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Introduction
Introduction: Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and its (Female) Discontents
Tanis MacDonald
A daughter’s duty to care for her dying father and properly mourn his death is a commonly assumed cultural and familial obligation. If, as W. David Shaw suggests, we “want elegies...
by L.M. Favier
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
A SACKFUL OF QUARTERS is a collection of short stories set throughout the twelve months of the year. Each story is a seasonal account of one particular character's life experience. The glue that holds them all together is that each woman or girl originally perceives herself through familial or societal...
The Other Side of the Story
Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists—notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood—attempt innovations in narrative form that are more radical in their implications than the dominant modes of fictional experimentation characterized...
Nadine Gordimer
Weaving Together Fiction, Women and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A fascinating intersection of intellectual minds, this literary critique views the writing of Nobel Prize–winner Nadine Gordimer through the fresh perspective of a respected French academic. Available for the first time in English, this analysis introduces the important works of a South African...
New Feminist Discourses
Critical Essays on Theories and Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered...
by Cathy L. Jrade
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially her daring eroticism, her inventive...
Rowing in Eden
Rereading Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Emily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her work, general readers and literary scholars...
From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl
Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented perspective than traditional tales and feature female characters...
by Joanne Tidwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories, Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time, as a feminist, Woolf wanted...