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Twentieth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging by Katie Gramich 9780708320860
RRP: $19.48$14.78Twentieth-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... -
What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books by Sheila Liming
RRP: $40.93$35.82Examining 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... -
Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman by Don W. King 9780802869364
RRP: $52.63$39.72Apologies 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... -
Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction by Samantha J. Rayner 9781787357624
RRP: $87.75$77.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787357624Author Samantha J. RaynerFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 790g -
An A-Z of Jane Austen by Michael Greaney
RRP: $97.50$91.61Jane 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... -
Anais Nin: A Myth of Her Own Clara Oropeza (Santa Barbara City College, USA) 9780367252663
RRP: $76.03$66.73Anais 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... -
Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals): The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot Karen Chase (University of Virginia, U.S.A.) 9781138779259
RRP: $93.58$81.53How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In examining how three authors - Charlotte Bronte, Charles... -
In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of Alice Walker's Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet
RRP: $38.98$28.26Mixing 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... -
Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Von Arnim by Gerri Kimber
RRP: $40.93$33.52Explores 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... -
Shirley Jackson's American Gothic by Darryl Hattenhauer 9780791456088
RRP: $49.74$43.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791456088Author Darryl HattenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction by Laurie Vickroy 9780813921280
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Material Enlightenment - Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830 by Joanna Wharton
RRP: $156.00$143.68A 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 Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone by Susan Paterson Glover
RRP: $77.98$68.37Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an... -
Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism Linda Kauffman (University of Maryland, College Park) 9780631163565
RRP: $75.95$66.69The 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... -
Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea; or, A Narrative of Her Journey from London into Cornwall Anna Trapnel 9780866985581
RRP: $54.60$53.41In 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... -
Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing: Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies by Lara Dodds
RRP: $97.50$84.65Feminist 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... -
Post-war Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches by Chris Weedon 9781571819024
RRP: $193.05$157.70Women 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 Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English by Lorna Sage 9780521495257
RRP: $259.35$193.73This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely project, when so much writing has been rediscovered, reclaimed and... -
Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews by Paris Review 9780679771296
$35.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771296Author Paris ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 559gDimensions(mm)... -
Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230 by William E. Burgwinkle 9780521118583
RRP: $72.13$59.14William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of... -
Alice Munro's Miraculous Art: Critical Essays by Janice Fiamengo
$57.60Alice 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... -
Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter by Susan Stanford Friedman 9780691058047
RRP: $87.75$78.80In 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... -
A Blossom Like No Other Li Qingzhao by Wei Djao 9780981325118
RRP: $33.15$24.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981325118Author Wei DjaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Ginger Post Inc.Publisher Ginger Post Inc.Weight(grams) 152g -
Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works by Charity Cannon Willard 9780892551521
$19.73Apologies 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)... -
Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim: At Her Most Radiant Moment by Juliane Romhild 9781611477030
RRP: $159.90$140.24When Elizabeth von Arnim anonymously published her debut Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898), she became a literary star overnight. The mystery surrounding the identity of this witty aristocratic diarist in her romantic garden kept readers guessing:... -
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone
RRP: $146.25$132.09This 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... -
Placing Charlotte Smith by Jacqueline M. Labbe 9781611462951
RRP: $210.60$184.68A lively and far-ranging interest in place(s), space(s), and situation characterizes the writing of the British Romantic-era author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Smith repeatedly questions what it means to be British in her literature. In an era of... -
Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf 9780156028066
RRP: $37.03$25.66Apologies 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)... -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Dr. Patsy Stoneman 9780719074479
RRP: $38.98$34.75This 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... -
Revisiting Italy: British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844–61) by Rebecca Butler 9780367768072
RRP: $77.98$68.37With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female... -
The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England by Julie Park
$122.01Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human-dolls, automata, puppets-proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned... -
Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals): British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834 Moira Ferguson 9781138796232
RRP: $85.78$75.74First 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather by Marilee Lindemann 9780521527934
RRP: $66.28$57.06The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisingly difficult to understand. The essays collected here are... -
British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960: Between the Waves by Jane Thomas
$89.66An 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... -
Slavery and the Literary Imagination by Deborah E. McDowell
$52.51Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne William's "Dessa Rose" (1984). Among... -
Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun 9780393331646
RRP: $23.38$17.73In 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... -
When Fiction and Philosophy Meet: A Conversation with Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil by E. Jane Doering 9780881466966
RRP: $68.15$53.72An 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... -
The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities by Marie Mulvey-Roberts
RRP: $48.75$34.94This 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... -
Pearl by the River by Sudipta Mitra
RRP: $13.65$9.85Apologies 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. -
Within the Walls and What Do I Love? by H. D. 9780813062044
$39.94This volume presents two rare works by the modernist writer 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...