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Within the Walls and What Do I Love? by H. D. 9780813062044
$26.42This 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... -
A History of Women's Writing in Italy by Letizia Panizza
RRP: $55.46$47.94A History of Women's Writing in Italy offers a comprehensive historical account of writing by women in Italy. Covering writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, it moves away from narrow definitions of literature, and brings to the reader's... -
Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500 by Carol M. Meale 9780521576208
RRP: $39.98$30.70This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture in medieval Britain and their representation within it. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English and Welsh as well as Latin, and addresses issues... -
Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction by Annis Pratt
RRP: $28.37$24.76Archetypal patterns endure because they give expression to perennial dilemmas submerged in the collective unconscious. Having examined more than 300 novels by both major and minor women writers over three centuries, Annis Pratt perceives in women's... -
Literary Sisterhoods: Imagining Women Artists by Deborah Heller 9780773528222 [USED COPY]
RRP: $132.87$19.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival by Marilyn Kallet 9780820321530
$36.29How do women writers cope with changes and juggle the demands in their already full lives to make time for their lives as artists? In this anthology, noted female novelists, journalists, essayists, poets, and nonfiction writers address the old and new... -
Women Writers and National Identity: Bachmann, Duden, OEzdamar by Stephanie Rose Bird 9780521824064
RRP: $116.10$93.10In Women Writers and National Identity, Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers. Bird argues for the importance of... -
Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance by Roberta L. Krueger 9780521619363
RRP: $47.72$39.13This study focuses on the relationship between Old French verse romances and the women who formed a part of their audience, and challenges the commonly-held view that all courtly literature promoted the social welfare of the noblewomen to whom romances... -
Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony by Ursula Tidd 9780521661300
RRP: $116.10$99.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland by Todd Kontje 9780521631105
RRP: $123.83$105.79In this 1998 book, Todd Kontje surveys novels by German women over the one-hundred-year period that stretches from the beginnings of a German national literature to the founding of its nation-state. Introducing readers to the lives and works of fourteen... -
H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence by Cassandra Laity 9780521554145
RRP: $116.10$93.10H. D and the Victorian Fin de Siecle argues foremost that H. D. eluded the male modernist flight from Romantic 'effeminacy' and 'personality' by embracing the very cults of personality in the Decadent Romanticism of Oscar Wilde, A. C. Swinburne, Walter... -
Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 by Rachel Blau DuPlessis 9780521483353
RRP: $47.72$39.13In Genders, Races and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetries, Rachel Blau Duplessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers represented the debates and ideologies concerning New Woman, New Negro and New Jew in the early twentieth... -
Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit by Carol J. Singley 9780521472357
RRP: $116.10$93.10Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit, first published in 1995, makes the case for Wharton as a novelist of morals rather than of manners; a novelist who sought answers to profound spiritual and metaphysical questions. Focusing on Wharton's treatment... -
Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola by Carol A. Mossman 9780521030984
RRP: $39.98$36.48This book is a feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France. It focuses on three major thinkers whose personal relation to... -
Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias by Lewis C. Seifert 9780521026277
RRP: $51.59$44.16Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This 1996 book explores why fashionable adults were attracted to this new literary genre and, integrating socio-historical,... -
Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230 by William E. Burgwinkle 9780521839686
RRP: $116.10$99.96William 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... -
Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France by Alison Finch 9780521631860
RRP: $116.10$99.96This is the most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch's wide-ranging analysis of some 60 writers reflects the rich diversity of a century that begins with Mme de Stael's cosmopolitanism and... -
A History of Women's Writing in Russia by Adele Marie Barker 9780521572804
RRP: $140.61$126.61A History of Women's Writing in Russia offers a comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers. Based on original and archival research, this volume forces a re-examination of many of the traditionally held assumptions about... -
The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain by Susan K. Harris 9780521556507
RRP: $50.30$41.64Passionate readers both, Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain courted through books, spelling out their expectations through literary references as they corresponded during their frequent separations. Surprisingly, in the process Olivia Langdon reveals herself... -
Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola by Carol A. Mossman 9780521415866
RRP: $134.16$119.75This book is a feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France. It focuses on three major thinkers whose personal relation to... -
H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence by Cassandra Laity 9780521107891
RRP: $39.98$32.83H. D and the Victorian Fin de Siecle argues foremost that H. D. eluded the male modernist flight from Romantic 'effeminacy' and 'personality' by embracing the very cults of personality in the Decadent Romanticism of Oscar Wilde, A. C. Swinburne, Walter... -
Home Material Ohios Nineteenth by Parker 9780879727666
RRP: $24.45$16.43This chronologically selected anthology of fiction by eight Ohio women makes accessible a literary tradition that begins with lost aspects of frontier life in the 1830s depicted by contemporaries Julia L. Dumont and Pamilla W. Ball. It ends with Jessie... -
Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing by Floyd Gray 9780521024877
RRP: $42.56$36.61In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of... -
Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 by Faith Wigzell 9780521024792
RRP: $54.17$46.69Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books,... -
Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France by Alison Finch 9780521024549
RRP: $56.75$49.20This is the most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch's wide-ranging analysis of some 60 writers reflects the rich diversity of a century that begins with Mme de Stael's cosmopolitanism and... -
Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing by Floyd Gray 9780521773270
RRP: $116.10$99.45In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of... -
Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 by Faith Wigzell 9780521581233
RRP: $116.10$99.45Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books,... -
Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias by Lewis C. Seifert 9780521550055
RRP: $134.16$119.75Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This 1996 book explores why fashionable adults were attracted to this new literary genre and, integrating socio-historical,... -
Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages by Isabel Davis 9780521142175
RRP: $39.98$34.09Medieval discourses of masculinity and male sexuality were closely linked to the idea and representation of work as a male responsibility. Isabel Davis identifies a discourse of masculine selfhood which is preoccupied with the ethics of labour and... -
Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland by Todd Kontje 9780521025423
RRP: $42.56$36.61In this 1998 book, Todd Kontje surveys novels by German women over the one-hundred-year period that stretches from the beginnings of a German national literature to the founding of its nation-state. Introducing readers to the lives and works of fourteen... -
Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color by Barbara Rodriguez 9780195123418
$145.22By engaging current approaches to the genre, Autobiographical Inscriptions breaks new ground in the field of autobiography studies. The book is centered in a discussion of the ways that innovations of form and structure contain and bolster arguments for... -
Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers by Sally Barr Ebest 9780268027735
$36.77In a series of critical and biographical essays, Too Smart to Be Sentimental offers a feminist literary history of twentieth-century Irish America. This collection introduces the reader to the works of twelve contemporary Irish American women writers,... -
Sleeping with One Eye Open by Marilyn Kallet 9780820352558
$104.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820352558Author Marilyn KalletFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 526g -
Louise Erdrich by David Stirrup 9780719074271
RRP: $25.79$22.72Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is the first fully comprehensive treatment of Erdrich's writing, analysing the textual complexities and diverse contexts of her work to date... -
Flannery O'Connor: New Perspectives by Sura P. Rath 9780820318042
$37.06These ten essays, seven of which are previously unpublished, reflect the broadening of critical approaches to Flannery O'Connor's work over the past decade. The essays offer both new directions for, and new insights into, reading O'Connor's fiction. Some... -
Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865 by Kari J. Winter 9780820336992
$31.99Analyzing the historical contexts in which female Gothic novels and slave narratives were composed, Kari J. Winter shows that both types of writing expose the sexual politics at the heart of patriarchal culture and represent terrifying aspects of life... -
Communication and Women's Friendships: Parallels and Intersections in Literature and Life by Janet Doubler Ward 9780879726447
RRP: $20.58$14.09Eleven original essays offer a variety of perspectives on the changing ways in which women's friendships have been viewed. The contributors discuss the fundamental values of women's friendships and communication in order to understand the many parallels... -
Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World by Ketu H. Katrak 9780813537153
RRP: $42.57$31.33Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In ""Politics of the Female Body,"" Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial... -
The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather by Marilee Lindemann 9780521821100
RRP: $96.75$61.79The 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... -
Cassandra's Daughters: The Women in Hemingway by Roger Whitlow 9780313244889
$84.53Roger Whitlow demonstrates that the negative criticism about the women characters in Ernest Hemingway's fiction is often misguided, perhaps entirely wrong. He argues that most of Hemingway's female characters have strengths that have been consistently...