Women Authors category: 700 books
Disrupted Idylls
Nature, Equality, and the Feminine in Sentimentalist Russian Womens Writing (Mariia Pospelova, Mariia Bolotnikova, and Anna Naumova) With translations by Emily Lygo
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18th- and early-19th-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to examine restrictions imposed on women. Women authors in particular...
by Sandra M. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
A collection of essays that reexamine literature through a feminist gaze from "one of our most versatile and gifted writers" (Joyce Carol Oates).
"We think back through our mothers if we are women," wrote Virginia Woolf. In this groundbreaking series of essays, Sandra M....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the exception of Christie's Miss Marple, the names of female detectives and their authors have only recently...
Antigone's Daughters?
Gender, Genealogy and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Antigone's Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa (1892-1958), Agustina Bessa Lu's, (1923- ), Nat_lia Correia (1923-93), HZlia Correia (1949 -) and L'dia...
by Dale M. Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of "sex expression," many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to...
Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
European Women Pilgrims
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid “lady travelers” who ventured into the geography of the New World—Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean—at a crucial historical juncture, the period of political...
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike. Now, John E. Miller, one of America’s leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, combines analyses of both women to explore this collaborative process and shows...
Diasporic Women's Writing of the Black Atlantic
(En)Gendering Literature and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora...
Women Writers of Latin America
Intimate Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
What does it take for a woman to succeed as a writer? In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias íntimas, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena García Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors...
Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction
Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women's poetry of the period. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, it explores a wide variety...
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...
Quo Anima
spirituality and innovation in contemporary women’s poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Quo Anima studies the poetry of contemporary women poets in relation to spirituality and innovative form. In the past two decades, a lively conversation has taken shape as more and more poets have risked engagement with various forms of mysticism. However, much of the critical response to this work...
Playing House in the American West
Western Women’s Life Narratives, 1839-1987
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Examining an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts—canonical and otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life.
The controlling metaphor Cathryn...