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Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry by F. Elizabeth Gray 9781138878365
RRP: £47.99£41.81Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly... -
Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing: Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics by Estrella Cibreiro 9781138850958
RRP: £47.99£41.81This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on... -
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler 9781138834729
RRP: £115.00£99.36One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed... -
Private and Fictional Words: Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s by Coral Ann Howells 9781138794719
RRP: £19.99£17.69First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women's 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... -
Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale: by Sydney Owenson by Jenny McAuley 9781138235410
RRP: £39.99£35.46This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owenson's seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four 'national tales'. Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social... -
Jane Austen: A French Appreciation by Leonie Villard 9781138084421
RRP: £39.99£35.06First published in 1924, this unique title provides an extremely valuable early Twentieth Century perspective on Jane Austen, offering analysis from both sides of the channel. The book includes both a translated study of Jane Austen by French academic... -
Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist by Michelle Sharp 9781138044692
RRP: £135.00£117.28This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos's pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos's work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser-known texts, both... -
The Noble Flame of Katherine Philips: A Poetics of Culture, Politics, and Friendship by David L. Orvis 9780820704746
RRP: £54.95£47.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820704746Author David L. OrvisFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Duquesne University PressPublisher Duquesne University PressWeight(grams) 771g -
A Life with Mary Shelley by Barbara Johnson 9780804790529
£91.61In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her... -
Women's Poetry by Jo Gill 9780748623068
RRP: £23.99£21.06This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe... -
The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature by Marianne Noble 9780691009377
RRP: £48.00£44.75For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have over-simplified its complex relationship to women's power. Marianne Noble argues that tropes of eroticized... -
Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 by Radwa Ashour 9789774161469
RRP: £40.00£33.78This book is an invaluable new reference source and critical review of Arab women writers from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth.Arab women's writing in the modern age began with A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and... -
Ann Charlotte Leffler and Modernist Drama: True Women and New Women on the Fin-de-siecle Scandinavian Stage by Lynn R. Wilkinson 9781860570841
RRP: £85.00£84.28Anne Charlotte Leffler (1849-1892) was the most important European woman playwright of the last decades of the nineteenth century and together with Ibsen and Strindberg one of the Scandinavian pioneers of modern and modernist drama. Lynn R. Wilkinson's... -
Post-war Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches by Chris Weedon 9781571810489
RRP: £27.95£22.58Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is also attracting growing attention elsewhere. Informed by critical feminist and literary theory, this... -
Post-war Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches by Chris Weedon 9781571819024
RRP: £99.00£80.23Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is also attracting growing attention elsewhere. Informed by critical feminist and literary theory, this... -
The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities by Marie Mulvey-Roberts 9781526136770
RRP: £90.00£78.81This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Carter scholars with some emerging academics, in a new approach to her... -
The Book by Mary Ruefle 9781950268849
RRP: £17.99£12.30Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of... -
Women Writing Men: 1689 to 1869 by Joanne Ella Parsons 9781032227566
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. As men have written women so have women written men. Debate about how men have represented women in literature has a long and distinguished history; however, there has been... -
The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery by Robin Runia 9781138571372
RRP: £135.00£117.28There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academic circles. The Future of Eighteenth-Century Feminist Scholarship: Beyond Recovery shows us otherwise. Each... -
Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women's Fiction by Maryam Mirza 9781526150615
RRP: £80.00£70.20‘Mirza’s theorization of resistance is a substantive addition to feminist and postcolonial scholarship, and her rich readings of different literary texts make a valuable contribution to feminist literary studies.’ Nalini Iyer, Professor of... -
Motherhood and Childhood in Silvina Ocampo’s Works by Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz 9781837720750
RRP: £75.00£60.54The works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo (1903–93) are enjoying unprecedented attention from international scholars, writers, journalists, translators and film directors. This book explores the reason for the growing interest, and how it connects... -
Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century by Carol Diethe 9781571819321
RRP: £99.00£79.83No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to look back and examine the aspirations, achievements... -
Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture by Françoise Lionnet 9780801420917
RRP: £51.00£43.46Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women’s autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices... -
Mary Hays's 'Female Biography': Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism by Mary Spongberg 9780367660949
RRP: £39.99£35.06The essays included in Mary Hays’s ‘Female Biography’: Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism emerge from the authors’ collaboration in producing the first modern edition of Hays’s work in the Chawton House Library Edition (2013, 2014). This book... -
Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France by Alistaire Tallent 9781644533239
RRP: £41.00£35.15Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure,... -
Mary Webb – Neglected Genius by Mary E. Crawford 9781605830247
RRP: £60.00£50.11This illustrated catalog was published to accompany exhibitions at the Grolier Club and the Stanford University Libraries in 2010. This catalog includes introductory essays about the life and work of the Shropshire novelist and poet, Mary Webb... -
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven by Jennifer McFarlane-Harris 9781032034744
RRP: £39.99£35.06This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women’s theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria... -
The Tragic Life Story of Medea as Mother, Monster, and Muse by Jana Rivers Norton 9781527541306
£66.13This volume offers a critical yet empathic exploration of the ancient myth of Medea as immortalized by early Greek and Roman dramatists to showcase the tragic forces afoot when relational suffering remains unresolved in the lives of individuals, families... -
Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century Englan - Milkmaids on Parnassus by Susanne Kord 9781571132680
RRP: £105.00£100.45This is the first comparative study of a highly unlikely group of authors: eighteenth-century women peasants in England, Scotland, and Germany, women who, as a rule, received little or no formal education and lived by manual labor, many of them in dire... -
The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States by Resa L. Dudovitz 9780367341787
RRP: £29.99£26.64Reviled by critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critical interest. In The Myth of Superwoman, originally published in 1990, Resa Dudovitz looks at this international phenomenon, particularly at the... -
Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot by Kimberly VanEsveld Adams 9780821413623
RRP: £32.00£29.13Our Lady of Victorian Feminism is about three nineteenth-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women. In the... -
The Ironic World of Evelyn Waugh: A Study of Eight Novels by Frederick Beaty 9780875805627
RRP: £15.99£12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875805627Author Frederick BeatyFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams)... -
Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf 9780156028066
RRP: £18.99£13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028066Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past by Jane De Gay 9780748633029
RRP: £31.00£28.15REVIEWS FROM HARDBACK EDITION: 'A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past...The strong account of Woolf's relation to tradition in Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past will... -
Literary Liaisons: Auto/biographical Appropriations in Modernist Women's Fiction by Lynette Felber
RRP: £39.00£33.49Unhappy relationships are the stuff of fiction-or so Lynette Felber observes as she examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Ana/u00efs Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald,... -
Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers by Catherine B. Burroughs
£50.56Closet Stages examines theater theory produced by middle- and upper-class British women-playwrights, actresses, and spectators-between 1790 and 1840. Shifting the focus away from the Romantic male writers to the journals, letters, and play prefaces in... -
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer 9781250757982
RRP: £20.00£12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250757982Author Anne BoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm * 25mm -
The Excursion by Frances Brooke
RRP: £23.00£18.75" Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system. An ambitious twenty-three-year-old, Maas... -
The Fiction of Doris Lessing: Re-envisioning Feminism by Ratna Raman
£91.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390176915Author Ratna RamanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g -
Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies by Catherine Rainwater
£35.34Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative management. The ten essays in this book raise new and...