Women Authors

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573241380Author Brenda KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Conari Press,U.S.Publisher Conari Press,U.S.

Contemporary feminist critics have often described Surrealism as a misogynist movement. In Automatic Woman, Katharine Conley addresses this issue, confirming some feminist allegations while qualifying and overturning others. Through insightful analyses...

The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature offers an introduction to key debates in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present. It addresses one of the longest standing controversies in literary history: the boundary between...

Ever since its rediscovery in 1934, "The Book of Margery Kempe" has generally been judged to be over-emotional and its structure regarded as at worst non-existent, at best naive. Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa argues instead that the book unfolds a creative...

Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful...

Twentieth-Century Women's Writing in Wales documents Welsh women's writing in both Welsh and English in the twentieth century. It identifies a distinctive female literary tradition in which Wales is represented as a 'different country' by its modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385486811Author Kate BernheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

This book gives a detailed picture of the contributions made by women writers to Western literature from the third century to the thirteenth. Many of the texts Peter Dronke presents and interprets have hitherto remained unknown, or virtually...

Since her suicide over four decades ago, fascination with the poet Sylvia Plath has never waned. Plath has recently been the subject of a novel (""Wintering"", by Kate Moses), a feature film (""Sylvia"", starring Gwyneth Paltrow), and a film documentary...

Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384067564Author Tejaswini Apte-RahmFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book Company

Mary Delany's phrase "the matrimonial trap" illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely...

Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Christianity Today Book Award (Culture) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780802869364Author Don W. KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint William B Eerdmans...

Madame Bovary was one of the most influential literary achievements of the nineteenth century and gained immediate notoriety through its questioning of marriage, sex, and the role of women. Stephen Heath shows how this landmark text captures and...

Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z...

In 1654, Anna Trapnel - a Baptist, Fifth Monarchist, millenarian, and visionary from London - fell into a trance during which she prophesied passionately and at length against Oliver Cromwell and his government. The prophecies attracted widespread public...

Explores the literary connection between Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth von Arnim is best remembered as the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898) and The Enchanted April (1922), as well as being the elder cousin of...

Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to...

A methodologically innovative account of the role of women writers in the development of early psychological theory and practice in the long eighteenth century. Women writers played a central, but hitherto under-recognised, role in the development of...

The political force of feminism cannot be separated from the theories which give it that force. an effective feminist literary criticism must negotiate its relationship to the dominant male voice of traditional practices. Can it change that voice for new...

Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing reexamines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women's writing in essays that elaborate the specific literary strategies of women writers, that examine women's debts to and...

This 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...

First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the...

Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro's career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an undergraduate at the...

In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472066094Author James FitzmauriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892551521Author Charity Cannon WillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 402gDimensions(mm)...

Today, copyright is everywhere, surrounded by a thicket of no-trespassing signs that mark creative work as private property. Caren Irr's `Pink Pirates' asks how contemporary novelists-represented by Ursula Le Guin, Andrea Barrett, Kathy Acker, and Leslie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614406Author Tillie OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf's engagement with science. It demonstrates that science is integral to the construction of identity in Woolf's novels of the 1930s and 1940s, and identifies a little-explored source for Woolf's scientific...

An innovative book, When Fiction and Philosophy Meet explores the intersection between the philosophy of Simone Weil from Paris, France, and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor from the Southern state of Georgia, USA. In an era of war, of unprecedented...

This pioneering study, described as 'a model of feminist criticism' (The Year's Work in English Studies) on first publication, revealed Gaskell as an important social analyst who deliberately challenged the Victorian disjunction between public and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251645Author PH D Lisa YaszekFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women's writing by shedding new light on a group of authors...

For 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...

The 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...

In this modern classic, Carolyn G. Heilbrun builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience. Drawing on the careers...

During 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129144881Author Sudipta MitraFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.