Women Authors

Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the...

Establishing Edith Sitwell at the center of British modernism, this volume showcases her many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, art, and performance. Forgoing the gossip about her eccentric appearance and self-fashioned...

Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how...

At a time when overt feminist statements could ruin a woman's reputation, comedy enabled certain authors to smuggle feminism into their writing. This work sheds light on the ways in which Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen enlisted the power...

Medieval 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...

Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf's diary is her lengthiest and longest-sustained work, and the last to reach the public. In the only full-length work to deeply explore this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece,...

In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf's multivolume diary, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929. During these interwar years, Woolf began penning many of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254660Author Iveta JusovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 345g

This volume was the first historical introduction to women's writing in France from the sixth century to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars provide an introduction in English to the wealth and diversity of French women...

Throughout the nineteenth century, American fiction displayed a fascination with women's speech - describing how women's voices sound, what happens when women speak and what reactions their speech produces, especially in their male listeners. Voices of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791456071Author Darryl HattenhauerFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

In 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...

At the end of the nineteenth century Emilia Pardo Bazan was Spain's leading woman novelist and short story writer, and also a critic, journalist and fierce campaigner for women's rights. This book examines Pardo Bazan's growth into maturity as a novelist...

Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female...

L.M. Montgomery's writings are replete with enchanting yet subtle and fluid depictions of nature that convey her intense appreciation for the natural world. At a time of ecological crises, intensifying environmental anxiety, and burgeoning eco-critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313236662Author Richard J. SchraderFormat HardbackPage Count 129Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Collections of interviews with notable modern writersBook InformationISBN 9780878052677Author Joan GivnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of Mississippi

Throughout the nineteenth century, American fiction displayed a fascination with women's speech - describing how women's voices sound, what happens when women speak and what reactions their speech produces, especially in their male listeners. Voices of...

Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the...

Critical Conditions: Reading Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Writing, represents a novel approach not only to postcolonial Francophone literature but to literary and cultural studies in general. Julie Nack Ngue's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313236815Author Julie Greer JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book traces the chronological development of Atwood's global reputation from Canadian nationhood to world-wide politics and from the role of women to gender identity. Chapters offer a comprehensive overview of her poetry, novels, shorter fiction,...

This original study re-evaluates central texts of the modernist canon - Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past - by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically...

A 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...

Taking its title from a poem by Prince Edward Island poet Anne Compton, In the Interval of the Wave is a close study of diaries written by Prince Edward Island women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Women from both rural and urban regions...

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313247767Author Carol S. ManningFormat HardbackPage Count 221Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Who Is in the House? provides the first scholarly historical and psychological analysis of both the content and the appeal of women's popular fiction in America during the past two centuries. Principal attention is given to the power of the images of...

Most Japanese literary historians have suggested that the Meiji Period (1868-1912) was devoid of women writers but for the brilliant exception of Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896). Rebecca Copeland challenges this claim by examining in detail the lives and...

In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256893Author Jennifer Bernhardt SteadmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

These 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...

What if the American literary canon were expanded to consistently represent women writers, who do not always fit easily into genres and periods established on the basis of men's writings? How would the study of American literature benefit from this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252444Author Debrah RaschkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 372g

This unique collection evokes the little-heard voices of the women who form the very underpinnings of our society.Book InformationISBN 9780813515281Author Janet ZandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791465233Author J. Brooks BousonFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791464212Author Suellen DiaconoffFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Edith 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...

This original study re-evaluates central texts of the modernist canon - Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past - by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically...

The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars. They offer a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These...