Women Authors

Using experimental style as a framework for close readings of writings produced by late twentieth-century North American women, Deborah Mix places Gertrude Stein at the center of a feminist and multicultural account of twentieth-century innovative...

In her own private ways, Emily Dickinson participated in the popular entertainments of her time. On her piano, she performed popular musical numbers, many from the tradition of minstrelsy, and at theaters, she listened to famous musicians, including...

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain. So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of...

Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the...

In ""Good Observers of Nature"", Tina Gianquitto examines nineteenth-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experience of nature and investigates the linguistic, perceptual, and scientific systems that were available to...

Originally published in 1994 by the University of Georgia Press, a study of the influence of Shakespeare on women novelists from the late eighteenth century onwards, with particular reference to George Eliot.Book InformationISBN 9780877456506Author...

When Scarlett O'Hara fluttered her dark lashes, did she threaten only the gentleman in her parlor or the very culture that produced her? Examining the ""bad belle"" as a recurring character, The Belle Gone Bad fi nds that white...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595714049Author Rosaly Torna KurthFormat HardbackPage Count 466Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 835g

Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that,...

In the collection of interviews with Amonia Somors, Griselda Gambaro, Juleita Campos, Elvira Orphee, Luisa Valenzuela, and Marta Traba, Evelyn Picon Garfield reflects on the lives, careers, and creative expressions of six authors whose cultivation of...

The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, created in 1974, has played a major role in establishing the legitimacy and visibility of feminist inquiry. The early award-winning essays are available in the MLA volume Courage and Tools...

Never before has a book examined Spanish women and their mastery of the essay. In the groundbreaking collection Spanish Women Writers and the Essay, Kathleen M. Glenn and Mercedes Mazquiaran de Rodriguez help to rediscover the neglected genre, which has...

Concerned with the way in which women writers are represented, this collection of essays questions the current boundaries of literary periods and advocates a revised literary canon. It also examines the need for literary reforms considering differences...

What if the American literary canon were expanded to consistently represent women writers, who do not always fit easily into genres and periods established on the basis of men's writings? How would the study of American literature benefit from this...

This volume presents two rare works by the American poet H.D.: `Within the Walls', a collection of fourteen short stories, and `What Do I Love?', a set of three long poems. Written during World War II in London, where H.D. chose to stay despite offers of...

Since 1980 the South has experienced a tremendous resurgence in fiction by women - black and white, rich and poor, from the deep South and from Appalachia. This revival marks a critical stage in the development of southern literature, for it offers a...

Proposing a political reading of six of Marguerite Duras' works, the author centres on a single narrative core as an allegory of the neocolonial politics of representation. The study sets the work in a larger framework than that of psychoanalysis and...

Patricia Murphy explores the tenuous interplay of gender and science to show how Victorian literature both challenged and reinforced a constrictive role for women. Focusing on a specific body of literature involving women intensely associated with...

Cathryn Halverson reclaims a trio of female memoirists whose works tell us a great deal about the emergence of women's writing in the early twentieth century, the conception of the West, and the role of autobiography as literature that can reveal a time...

Most critics claim that Edith Wharton's creative achievement peaked with her novels ""The House of Mirth"" and ""The Age of Innocence"", dismissing her later fiction as reactionary, sensationalistic and...

This chronologically selected anthology of fiction by eight Ohio women makes accessible a literary tradition that begins with lost aspects of frontier life in the 1830s depicted by contemporaries Julia L. Dumont and Pamilla W. Ball. It ends with Jessie...

Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences in that space and then publishing their memoirs for the larger public to consume. Season to Taste:...

Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences in that space and then publishing their memoirs for the larger public to consume. Season to Taste:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780343261924Author Brenda KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Franklin ClassicsPublisher Franklin ClassicsWeight(grams) 540g

In Women Between: Construction of Self in the Work of Sharon Butala, Aganetha Dyck, Mary Meigs and Mary Pratt, Verna Reid explores the evolving perceptions of "self" in the work of four Canadian women - visual artists Aganetha Dyck and Mary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926708126Author Sharon BeckfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education...

This revised edition has been updated to cover Allende's three newest books-City of the Beasts, Portrait in Sepia: A Novel, and Daughter of Fortune. It includes four new interviews in which Allende discusses completing her trilogy of novels that began...

In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives, biographical, New Historicist, materialist, poststructuralist, feminist, with several of the pieces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771296Author Paris ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 559gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983719205Author Howard Ray WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Howard Ray WhitePublisher Howard Ray WhiteWeight(grams) 77g

Karla K. Morton's Hometown, Texas is a collection of beautiful poems and artwork, created by high school and middle school students of small towns all over Texas and by Morton herself, making the collection very unique and intriguing. Each poem brings to...

One of the most often repeated anecdotes about the direction of literary studies over the past three decades concerns a graduate student who complained of reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening in three classes and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick in none. But...

An anthology of fiction by one of America's important feminist writers, the author of the ""Yellow Wallpaper"", in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry. Collected here, by Lane, are 18 stories and fragments, including a selection from...

This book looks at sexuality in American women's writing.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...

This title presents the leading voice of early American womanhood. Susanna Rowson - novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity - bears little resemblance to the title character in her most famous creation, Charlotte...

Proposing a new way to map intersections of photography and American literature, Katherine Henninger demonstrates the importance of pinpointing specific cultural and subcultural history. ""Ordering the Facade"" traces the visual and...

Grasso explores the ways in which black and white 19th-century women writers define, express, and dramatize anger. Offering close readings of works by Lydia Maria Child, Maria W. Stewart, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson, she shows how women used an...

This provocative study explores the function of the unconscious in reading and creative processes. The book asks if reading can change the reader and if women, through reading, can change the unconscious fantasy structures that govern desire. Using...

This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional? Amanda J. Zink...

This collection of essays places Flannery O'Connor's work in constructive and collaborative dialogue with Spanish literature and literary aesthetics. The international scholars who contributed to this volume explore the ways in which O'Connor's literary...