Women Authors

In Imaginary Empires, Maria O'Malley examines early American texts published between 1767 and 1867 whose narratives represent women's engagement in the formation of empire. Her analysis unearths a variety of responses to contact, exchange, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801490Author Ildiko De Papp CarringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University...

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate...

From the late 1860s until her death in 1910, Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the best-known writers in America. She broke into print as a young woman in the 1860s with "Life in the Iron Mills," which established her as one of the pioneers of...

The flowering of literary imagination known as the American Renaissance had few roots in the South. While Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were creating a body of work that would endure, the only southern writer making a lasting...

Flannery O'Connor believed that fiction must try to achieve something on the order of what St. Gregory wrote about Scripture: every time it presents a fact, it must also disclose a mystery. O'Connor's artistic vision was located squarely in her Catholic...

With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capitalism scholarship by including the voices of some of the best-known nineteenth-century American women writers. Women’s literature...

Drawing upon letters, autobiographies and novels, this book examines the strategies that various southern women writers in the USA have used to create their own ""voice"", their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. This book...

Daniele Pitavy-Souques was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty's view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty's fiction, memoir,...

A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty's full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pearl Amelia McHaney offers clear-eyed and complex...

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...

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...

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) 540gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

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 9780983719205Author Howard Ray WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Howard Ray WhitePublisher Howard Ray WhiteWeight(grams) 77g

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...

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 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...

In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.S. women of color to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice, arguing that personal health and social justice are inextricably linked. Drawing on feminist ethics...

How best-selling women novelists coped with fame in a man's world; In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary...

In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a...

This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988994577Author Marcia TrahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint BarrelhousePublisher BarrelhouseWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 10mm

'In this book are bits and pieces of dreams, lives, experiences, and vistas, like squares cut from old cloth and assembled into a crazy quilt of writing styles and forms. The patchwork design mirrors both the complexity of the chroniclers and the stark...

Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a number of related projects, and, with over four million copies sold, is as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780930100056Author Joyce SutphenFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow...

Jane Gilmore Rushing grew up in Pyron, a Texas town no longer in existence, and from childhood she knew that she would be a writer. In seven novels produced between 1963 and 1984, she built her stories around themes that few West Texas writers had dared...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618249336Author Linda M HasselstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship has called attention to several hundred whose works have survived. Coming from the fields of literature, history, art history, and...