Women Authors

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491203651Author Mary J RinconFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture: Challenging Cultural and Literary Conventions offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon's major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon's fiction engages with controversial moral,...

9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed "clash of civilizations," and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures...

At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492345381Author Jolayne Johnson HinkelFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479187171Author Jane Heil Usyk --Format PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469922652Author Robert RodiFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439250877Author Myron TumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434848574Author Richard ShargelFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

There is a wealth of published literature in English by Latin American women writers, but such material can be difficult to locate due to the lack of available bibliographic resources. In addition, the various types of published narrative (short stories,...

A Specially Tender Piece of Eternity examines Virginia Woolf's treatment of time both as a theme of her works and as an essential element in her experimental narrative techniques. It starts from the individuation and analysis of Woolf's key concepts of...

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature...

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature...

Written by Hispanic and non-Hispanic scholars, these twelve essays -- six in English and six in Spanish -- disclose how over the past four centuries static and formulaic images of women in Hispanic art and literature have given way to lively and original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812231625Author Janet GezariFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

The Value of Emily Dickinson is the first compact introduction to Dickinson to focus primarily on her poems and why they have held and continue to hold such significance for readers. It addresses the question of literary value in light of current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379971Author Mechthild CranstonFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)...

In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references to literary texts. Nitz finds that many diarists...

This collection of work by contemporary American women writers celebrates the passions, joys, losses, courage, quests, and wisdom of women through all the seasons of their lives. The unusually broad range of this anthology makes it a unique, contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643362373Author Thadious M. DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina...

This is the first book-length critical approach to the fiction of the award-winning author of ""Birds of America"". ""Understanding Lorrie Moore"" is a comprehensive companion to the works of this wickedly humorous writer, whose fiction shows a deep...

In Imaginary Empires, Maria O'Malley examines early American texts published between 1767 and 1867 whose narratives represent women's engagement in the formation of empire. Her analysis unearths a variety of responses to contact, exchange, and...

The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, created in 1974, has played a major role in establishing the legitimacy and visibility of feminist inquiry. The early award-winning essays are available in the MLA volume Courage and Tools...

The subject of motherhood is interwoven with themes of survival, power and identity. It is also at the heart of any consideration of women's writing. Conversations of Motherhood sensitively charts common themes, intersecting experiences and related...

Whether in the public realm as political activists, artists, teachers, biographers, editors, and writers or in the more traditional role of domestic, nurturing women, Elizabeth Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne subverted rigid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801490Author Ildiko De Papp CarringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University...

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate...

From the late 1860s until her death in 1910, Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the best-known writers in America. She broke into print as a young woman in the 1860s with "Life in the Iron Mills," which established her as one of the pioneers of...

The flowering of literary imagination known as the American Renaissance had few roots in the South. While Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were creating a body of work that would endure, the only southern writer making a lasting...

Flannery O'Connor believed that fiction must try to achieve something on the order of what St. Gregory wrote about Scripture: every time it presents a fact, it must also disclose a mystery. O'Connor's artistic vision was located squarely in her Catholic...

With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capitalism scholarship by including the voices of some of the best-known nineteenth-century American women writers. Women’s literature...

Drawing upon letters, autobiographies and novels, this book examines the strategies that various southern women writers in the USA have used to create their own ""voice"", their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. This book...

In this searching study, Nghana Lewis offers a close reading of the works and private correspondences, essays, and lectures of five southern white women writers: Julia Peterkin, Gwen Bristow, Caroline Gordon, Willa Cather, and Lillian Smith. At the core...

With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capitalism scholarship by including the voices of some of the best-known nineteenth-century American women writers. Women’s literature...

Daniele Pitavy-Souques was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty's view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty's fiction, memoir,...

As autobiographies by famous women like Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart became bestsellers in the 1930s, American publishers sought out literary autobiographies from female novelists, poets, salon hosts, and editors. Templates for Authorship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643362380Author Thadious M. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina...

A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty's full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pearl Amelia McHaney offers clear-eyed and complex...

In response to the resurgence of interest in American novelist, poet, short-story writer, and newspaper correspondent Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902), whose best-known work is The Morgesons (1862), Jennifer Putzi and Elizabeth Stockton spent years...

"The female novelist of the nineteenth century may have frequently encountered opposition and interference from the male literary establishment, but the female short story writer, working in a genre that was seen as less serious and less profitable,...