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Janet Frames World of Books by Patricia Neville
RRP: $60.45$50.80This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive reading to create a web of intertextual relationships. Patricia Neville traces Frames passion for books beginning with her childhood and earliest published work... -
New Blazing World and Other Writings by Kate Lilley
$159.12"New Blazing World" (1666), is one of the earliest pieces of science fiction, telling the story of a voyage to a Utopian World. The Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73) was fascinated by contemporary science, and wove it into her writings. She was a... -
Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation by Norman Smith
RRP: $58.48$51.68It will be of interest to those who study the history of East Asia, imperialism, and women.Book InformationISBN 9780774813365Author Norman SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British... -
Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction by K. K. Ruthven
RRP: $44.83$38.14The rise of feminism is undeniably one of the major events in the development of literary criticism this century. Feminist approaches have pushed forward both the theory of literary criticism and the understanding of individual works of literature. K. K... -
Hidden Possibilities: Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark by Robert E. Hosmer
RRP: $54.58$47.07Described by David Lodge as "the most gifted and innovative writer of her generation," Muriel Spark had a literary career that spanned from the late 1940s until her death in 2006, and included poems, stories, plays, essays, and, most notably, novels. The... -
Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America by Ashley Reed
RRP: $35.08$31.01In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women writers of the antebellum... -
Diasporic Women's Writing of the Black Atlantic: (En)Gendering Literature and Performance Emilia Maria Duran-Almarza 9781138383241
RRP: $97.48$84.83This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex understanding of... -
A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf by Julia Kuehn
RRP: $93.58$81.53Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the 'art of fiction' debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction? This... -
Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory by Robin Truth Goodman
RRP: $175.50$158.01Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory offers an insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in the European Enlightenment, this book traces the literary... -
Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo by Nancy Caronia
RRP: $113.10$97.83Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our... -
Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels by Makiko Minow-Pinkney
RRP: $60.45$55.95This classic study shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Rather, it can be best seen as a feminist subversion of the deepest formal principles of a patriarchal social order:... -
Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony by Ursula Tidd
RRP: $64.33$55.34This is a full-length study exploring Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas on selfhood formulated in Le deuxieme sexe and her other philosophical essays of the 1940s. Drawing on more recent work in... -
Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets by Sandra M. Gilbert
RRP: $31.18$28.55" . . . the best collection of feminist essays on women poets now available." -Spokeswoman Review"[The essays] form a satisfying whole, stunningly enlightening, important for literature and women's studies. . . . " -Library JournalThe essays in this... -
Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale: by Sydney Owenson by Jenny McAuley
$219.59This 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... -
The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery by Robin Runia
RRP: $81.88$71.66There 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... -
Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female by Geetha Ramanathan
RRP: $74.08$65.09This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of... -
Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Art by Susan Srigley
RRP: $46.78$40.64The writings and life of Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) have enjoyed considerable attention both from admirers of her work and from scholars. In this distinctive book, Susan Srigley charts new ground in revealing how O'Connor's ethics are inextricably... -
Women and Print Culture (Routledge Revivals): The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical Kathryn Shevelow 9781138804203
RRP: $74.08$65.09With the growth of popular literary forms, particularly the periodical, during the eighteenth century, women began to assume an unprecedented place in print culture as readers and writers. Yet at the same time the very textual practices of that culture... -
Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor Erica Brown 9781138664647
RRP: $93.58$81.53Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony... -
Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction: Novel Ethics by Rachel Hollander
RRP: $85.78$74.96Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections... -
Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain by Jorge Sacido-Romero
RRP: $263.25$229.48In 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... -
A Life with Mary Shelley by Barbara Johnson
RRP: $38.98$34.20In 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 first... -
Westerns: A Women's History by Victoria Lamont
RRP: $87.75$76.40At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women's History debunks this myth once and for all by... -
Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf by Susan David Bernstein
RRP: $40.93$37.54This book examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary source. Roomscape explores a specific site - the Reading Room of the British Museum - as a space of imaginative potential in relation to... -
Adelaide and Theodore: by Stephanie-Felicite De Genlis by Gillian Dow
$194.22Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within... -
Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation by Sorcha Gunne 9780415896689
RRP: $89.68$78.25The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the... -
Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance by D. H. Green 9780521513357
RRP: $175.50$143.40In contrast to the widespread view that the Middle Ages were a static, unchanging period in which attitudes to women were uniformly negative, D. H. Green argues that around 1200 the conventional relationship between men and women was subject to... -
The Dynamics Of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures Susan Arndt 9780865438989
RRP: $58.40$38.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438989Author Susan ArndtFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 323g -
Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power by Linden Peach 9780708319987
RRP: $13.63$10.65Presents a comparative study of fiction by late twentieth and twenty-first century women writers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. This work is of interest to students interested in women's studies, gender studies, and cultural studies as well as... -
Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" by Gina Wisker 9780826463623
RRP: $195.00$194.45This is an up-to-date readers guide to Atwood's contemporary classic covering contexts, themes and criticism. Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel "A Handmaid's Tale", engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power,... -
Women'S Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830 by Jennie Batchelor 9780719095580
RRP: $38.98$34.34Women's work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830. This book provides a... -
The Older Woman in Recent Fiction Zoe Brennan 9780786419005
RRP: $56.53$45.59This critical study explores late twentieth century novels by women writers--including Doris Lessing, May Sarton and Barbara Pym--that feature female protagonists over the age of sixty. These novels' discourses on aging contrast with those largely... -
Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Ammons 9780195080384
RRP: $154.05$112.46Liz Ammons's book examines the dramatic appearance, at the turn of the century, of a highly talented group of American women writers from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. How isolated occurrences of talent coalesced into a virtual phenomenon, and... -
Jane Austen (RLE Jane Austen): The Six Novels Wendy Craik 9781138084445
RRP: $85.78$74.96First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen's six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. This is a truly... -
Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim Thúy by Miléna Santoro 9780228017677
RRP: $60.45$53.35Kim Thuy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Quebecois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author's novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated... -
Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market by Linda H. Peterson
RRP: $97.50$77.06During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and... -
Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century by Carol Diethe 9781571819321
RRP: $193.05$156.92No 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... -
Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference by Vivian R. Pollak
RRP: $113.10$98.61For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who followed her. She situates Dickinson's originality in... -
Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: A Casebook by Judie Newman 9780195147179
RRP: $66.28$49.63Burger's Daughter, the seventh novel of South African writer Nadine Gordimer, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero, thus encapsulating the warring conditioning forces in South Africa of race, sex, and class position. Based... -
Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740 by Ros Ballaster 9780198184775
$132.09Historicist and feminist accounts of the `rise of the novel' have neglected the phenomenon of the professional woman writer in England prior to the advent of the sentimental novel in the 1740s. Seductive Forms explores the means by which the three...