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The Excursion by Frances Brooke
RRP: €57.72€40.21Frances Brooke (1724-1789), journalist, translator, playwright, novelist, and even co-manager of a theater, was described as "perhaps the first female novel-writer who attained a perfect purity and polish of style." Today, Brooke is known primarily for ... -
Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies by Catherine Rainwater
€40.48Ann 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... -
The Delicate Distress by Elizabeth Griffith
RRP: €57.72€46.27The eighteenth century was a time of significant change in the perception of marriage and family relations, the emphasis of reason over revelation, and the spread of political consciousness. The Unity of the Brethren, known in America as Moravians,... -
Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind by Jeanne Gerrity
RRP: €27.37€18.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980205572Author Jeanne GerrityFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary ArtPublisher CCA Wattis Institute for... -
Cather Studies, Volume 13: Willa Cather's Pittsburgh by Timothy W Bintrim
RRP: €38.08€33.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496224613Author Timothy W BintrimFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams)... -
Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography, and Mobility by Giorgia Alu
RRP: €160.65€140.04Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all related to Italy in different ways. It argues that photography provides women with a means to expose aspects of their nomadic self... -
Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers by Joyce Dyer
€32.37Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year Winner of the Susan Koppleman Award of the Popular Culture Association for Best Edited Collection in Women's Studies Joyce Dyer is director of writing and... -
A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing by Audrey Goodman
RRP: €64.26€55.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496225139Author Audrey GoodmanFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press -
Theatricals of Day: Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture by Sandra Runzo
€34.51In 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... -
Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885 by Catherine Delafield
RRP: €160.65€139.56Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women... -
Maria Vela Y Cueto: Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun by Susan Diane Laningham
RRP: €33.32€32.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866985598Author Susan Diane LaninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts... -
Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings by Deborah Frick
RRP: €49.97€40.89In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary... -
Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist by Michelle Sharp
RRP: €47.59€41.72This 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... -
Susan Sontag: The Elegiac Modernist by Sohnya Sayres
RRP: €45.21€39.72First published in 1990, this is the first book-length study of Susan Sontag: essayist and analyst if culture, author of 'Notes on Camp' and Illness as Metaphor, novelist, reviewer, and filmmaker. It was modernism, and the excitement it created in her,... -
From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer by Louise Yelin
RRP: €36.89€32.56Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to this century's global transformations. From the Margins of Empire... -
Malvina: by Sophie Cottin by Marijn S. Kaplan
€49.29Often linked to the works of early Romanticism, Sophie Cottin's Malvina (1803) was a bestselling sentimental novel. First published in France, the English translation by Elizabeth Gunning - a prolific novelist in her own right - allowed Cottin's book to... -
Private and Fictional Words: Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s by Coral Ann Howells
RRP: €45.21€39.72First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women 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... -
California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal by Monique McDade
RRP: €53.55€46.62California Dreams and American Contradictions establishes a genealogy of western American women writers publishing between 1870 and 1965 to argue that both white women and women of color regionalized dominant national literary trends to negotiate the... -
Journeys Exposed: Women’s Writing, Photography and Mobility by Giorgia Alù
RRP: €49.97€43.73Journeys Exposed: Women’s Writing, Photography and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all related to Italy in different ways. It argues that photography provides women with a means to expose aspects of their nomadic self... -
Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time by James Purdon
€113.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474494748Author James PurdonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley
€97.10An early example of satirical political writing by a woman. The book, with its blend of politics and sexuality, is based on the public and private lives of prominent politicians and society figures of the time.Book InformationISBN 9781851960200Author... -
Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing: Beyond Trishanku by Shilpa Daithota Bhat
RRP: €101.15€88.67This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women's narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of... -
Cather Studies, Volume 12: Willa Cather and the Arts by Cather Studies
RRP: €38.08€33.57Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. These cultural encounters informed her work as much as the historical past in which much of her writing is... -
Women's Poetry by Jo Gill
RRP: €101.15€92.23This 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... -
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars by Faye Hammill
RRP: €23.79€20.87As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon-celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to... -
Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers by Diane Lichtenstein
RRP: €28.55€24.80"Taking into account their multiple loyalties, this book explores how these Jewish women created their own space and how we interpret their achievements. With a comprehensive bibliography, notes, and an index, this work is essential for scholars,... -
Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain by Jorge Sacido-Romero
RRP: €47.59€41.72In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet... -
Alms In The Name Of A Blind Horse by Gurdial Singh
€9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129137319Author Gurdial SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co -
Women: Recados Gabriela Mistral 9781893996090
RRP: €14.27€9.52Most of these essays on women were originally published in newspapers and journals. Gathered together in English for the first time, they paint vivid portraits of some of the most extraordinary women of Mistral's generation and give us an insight into... -
Reading Austen in America by Juliette Wells
RRP: €27.36€26.72Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen's international fame. Drawing on a range... -
Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing by Cristina Herrera
RRP: €24.99€23.98While scholarship on Caribbean women’s literature has grown into an established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few book-length texts have focalized motherhood and... -
Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography by Maria DiBattista
RRP: €29.75€23.31Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an... -
Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away by Susan Srigley
RRP: €28.55€24.80Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away is a rich study of O'Connor's second novel by nine scholars in the fields of American literature, theology, and religious studies. Each essay is a penetrating look at the complexity... -
Contemporary British Women Writers Emma Parker 9781843840114
RRP: €47.60€45.87Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers. Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their... -
Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 Charlotte Nekola 9781642595833
RRP: €23.79€16.14This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie... -
Anais Nin: A Myth of Her Own by Clara Oropeza
RRP: €154.70€133.41Anais Nin: A Myth of Her Own traces Nin's literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details of the quotidian, transfigured into fiction. By digging into the mythic tropes that permeate both her... -
Wollstonecraft's Ghost: The Fate of the Female Philosopher in the Romantic Period by Andrew McInnes
RRP: €47.59€41.72Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the... -
Penelope Fitzgerald and the Consolation of Fiction by Christopher J. Knight
RRP: €47.59€41.72Christopher J. Knight's Penelope Fitzgerald and the Consolation of Fiction is a study of the British author Penelope Fitzgerald (1916 - 2000), attending to her nine novels, especially as viewed through the lens both of "late style" (she published her... -
Things of the Spirit: Women Writers Constructing Spirituality by Kristina K. Groover
RRP: €28.55€24.80In essays on topics ranging from Teresa of Avila's sixteenth-century mysticism to the politicized spirituality of postmodern women writers, the contributors to Things of the Spirit chronicle the development of women's spiritual writing as a context for... -
Party Time in Mussoorie by Ruskin Bond
€7.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129144492Author Ruskin BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co