Women Authors category: 700 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George...
by Kristen Lillvis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Monáe. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis...
For Better, For Worse
Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of marriage by women novelists between 1800 and 1900. It investigates the ways in which these novelists used the cultural form of the novel to engage with and contribute to the wider debates of the period around the fundamental cultural...
The Milk of Almonds
Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
“A vast, thoroughly wonderful assortment of poetry, memoirs and stories . . . that defines today’s female Italian-American experience” (Publishers Weekly).
Often stereotyped as nurturing others through food, Italian-American women have often struggled against this simplistic image to express...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female...
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up.
For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria...
Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture
Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge,...
Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
A Children's Classic at 100
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely candidate to pen a quiet, realistic, and unsentimental paean to disagreeable children and the natural...
Freedom's Empire
Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying a recurring freedom plot organized around an Atlantic Ocean crossing, Doyle shows how this plot structures...
by Margaret Wilson Oliphant
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This vintage volume contains a detailed catalogue of female fiction writers who lived during the Victorian era. This book will appeal to those with an interest in Victorian authors, and includes a wealth of interesting and insightful biographical information, analyses of writing and styles, information...
Fictions of Authority
Women Writers and Narrative Voice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining...
Corporeal Bonds
The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women’s Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
The mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante,...
Feminine Fictions
Revisiting the Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the...
Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers
Relational Science, Ethnographic Collaboration, and Tribal Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book focuses on the collaborative work between Native women storytellers and their female ethnographers and/or editors, but the book is also about what it is that is constitutive of scientific rigor, factual accuracy, cultural authenticity, and storytelling signification and meaning. Regardless...