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Les Pensées d’une reine, une oeuvre de la femme de lettres et Reine de Roumanie Élisabeth de Wied, pseudonyme Carmen Sylva (1843 – 1916). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte ……続きを見る

Women's Experimental Writingconsiders six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Kat……続きを見る

There are many different ways to say "I." This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (Hélène Cixous, Assia Djebar, Gisèle Halimi, and Julia Kristeva) have written their aut……続きを見る

Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship……続きを見る

Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. Accordin……続きを見る

Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograp……続きを見る

The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the p……続きを見る

The first full-length study of animals in Jane Austen, Barbara K. Seeber’s book situates the author’s work within the serious debates about human-animal relations that began in the eighteenth centur……続きを見る

Poetry. Beautiful words, long used to speak what we keep hidden at heart and let's be frank, woo the opposite sex,. Poetry comes in every genre, from vicious and bloody to heart wrenchingly eloquent……続きを見る

Poetry. Beautiful words, song lyrics, humorous limericks, it all counts. Long used to speak ones heart and let’s be frank, woo the opposite sex, it comes in every genre, from vicious and bloody to h……続きを見る

Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his be……続きを見る

The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range……続きを見る

This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts……続きを見る

A major American writer at the turn of this millennium, Leslie Marmon Silko has also been one of the most powerful voices in the flowering of Native American literature since the publication of her ……続きを見る

The Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that wer……続きを見る

Olivia in India by Anna Masterton Buchan the Scottish novelist who wrote under the pen name O. Douglas.This book was a historical duplication that wrote in 1912.Most of her novels were written and s……続きを見る

One hundred and ninety nine years ago, in an English country churchyard, a lady was laid to rest who enraptures the hearts of millions around the world today. She was only forty one years old, and h……続きを見る

At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women……続きを見る

Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical edu……続きを見る

Mari, Our Little Norwegian Cousin written by Mary Hazelton Wade. Published in 1903. Fifth Impression, June, 1908 Sixth Impression, March, 1910続きを見る

Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tale, engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the ……続きを見る

Margaret Atwood enjoys a unique prominence in Canadian letters. With over thirty books to her credit, in genres ranging from children's writing to dystopic novels, she is as creatively diverse as sh……続きを見る

This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley’s multifaceted contributions to eighteenth-cen……続きを見る

This work discusses a range of novels, short stories and essays by black American women writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present time. It begins with a survey of 19th-century black women's……続きを見る

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 th……続きを見る

A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium. Beginning with an extensive introd……続きを見る

Publié en 1987, le cinquième ouvrage de la romancière américaine Toni Morrison (née en 1931) lui valut le prix Pulitzer et accrut une réputation déjà établie avec Le Chant de Salomon (1985). L'incid……続きを見る

In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the ……続きを見る

Did you know that the literature you now enjoy once cause insomnia to its authors? Find out who wrote your favorite literary pieces in this enjoyable educational manual. What sets this book apart is……続きを見る