Women Authors

In this introduction to the diversity and scope of the writing by women in England from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Patricia Demers discusses the creative realities of women writers' accomplishments...

This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and...

Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture: Challenging Cultural and Literary Conventions offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon’s major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon’s fiction engages with controversial moral,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606085349Author Associate Professor Preston M BrowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock...

At the turn of the millennium, narrative works by Latin American women writers have represented madness within contexts of sociopolitical strife and gender inequality. This book explores contemporary Latin American realities through madness narratives by...

Although the names Mandel'shtam and Nijinsky more commonly evoke the Russian poet and the ballet dancer, their wives, Nadezhda and Romola are also beginning to attract attention. Similarly, the lives and works of Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome,...

The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and...

Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented...

Memoir is Rosario Ferre's account of her life both as a writer and as a member of a family at the center of the economic and political history of Puerto Rico during the American Century, one hundred years of territorial "non-incorporation" into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358728675Author Dr Sameena Nikhat FatimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512802412Author University Michael J HoffmanFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

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"In his extraordinary book Memoirs of a Minotaur: From Merrill Lynch to Patty Hearst to Poetry, Robin Magowan (grandson of the founder of Merrill Lynch and nephew of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, James Merrill) turns his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871177961Author Joan Anim-AddoFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Whiting & Birch LtdPublisher Whiting & Birch LtdWeight(grams) 499g

In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cather's fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices. Including multiple perspectives and critical approaches-derived from the Aesthetic Movement, the visual...

Liberty in Jane Austen's Persuasion is a meditation on Persuasion as a text in which Jane Austen, writing in the Age of Revolution, enters the conversation of her epoch. Poets, philosophers, theologians and political thinkers of the long eighteenth...

With novels like ""Ellen Foster"" and ""A Virtuous Woman"", award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both critical acclaim and a large, devoted following among readers. This literary companion equips the reader with information about characters,...

In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645467052Author Smitha VishwanathFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958669129Author Josephine DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Piscataqua PressPublisher Piscataqua PressWeight(grams) 231g

Liberty in Jane Austen's Persuasion is a meditation on Persuasion as a text in which Jane Austen, writing in the Age of Revolution, enters the conversation of her epoch. Poets, philosophers, theologians and political thinkers of the long eighteenth...

Since the founding of the United States, women have picked up their pens to write and express their ideas, affording them independence and self-sufficiency in days when they had little. By way of their poetry, essays, advice columns, investigative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942369219Author Maria RoofFormat PaperbackImprint Casasola EditoresPublisher Casasola EditoresWeight(grams) 152g

Germaine de Stael and German Women: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Stael's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of German women, including Caroline A. Fischer, Caroline...

In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645603375Author Nibedita PandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474487658Author Jennie BatchelorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture: Challenging Cultural and Literary Conventions offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon's major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon's fiction engages with controversial moral,...

9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed "clash of civilizations," and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures...

At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439250877Author Myron TumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 133g

There is a wealth of published literature in English by Latin American women writers, but such material can be difficult to locate due to the lack of available bibliographic resources. In addition, the various types of published narrative (short stories,...

A Specially Tender Piece of Eternity examines Virginia Woolf's treatment of time both as a theme of her works and as an essential element in her experimental narrative techniques. It starts from the individuation and analysis of Woolf's key concepts of...

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature...

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature...

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In both her life and her art, Charlotte Bronte was alive to the difficulty of responding to attacks that are denied or underacknowledged, so that any defense risks seeming defensive in our...

The Value of Emily Dickinson is the first compact introduction to Dickinson to focus primarily on her poems and why they have held and continue to hold such significance for readers. It addresses the question of literary value in light of current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379971Author Mechthild CranstonFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)...

In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references to literary texts. Nitz finds that many diarists...

This collection of work by contemporary American women writers celebrates the passions, joys, losses, courage, quests, and wisdom of women through all the seasons of their lives. The unusually broad range of this anthology makes it a unique, contemporary...