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The New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield associated intimately with many members of the Bloomsbury group, but her literary aesthetics placed her at a distance from the artistic works of the g……続きを見る

Excerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nin. 続きを見る

J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, an……続きを見る

A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. "Why do we write?" W……続きを見る

This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political particip……続きを見る

In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history.……続きを見る

Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a number of related project……続きを見る

Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the humanーdolls, automata, puppetsーproliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, th……続きを見る

A maverick in her own time, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) was dismissed for three centuries as an eccentric crank. Yet the past few decades have witnessed a true renaissance i……続きを見る

The last twenty-five years have seen exciting new developments in scholarly work on Lady Mary Wroth, whose Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus constitute the first romance and the first sonnet sequ……続きを見る

This volume includes leading scholarship on five writers active in the first half of the sixteenth century: Margaret More Roper, Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon.……続きを見る

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was renowned in her own time for her metrical translation of biblical Psalms, several original poems, translations from French and Italian, and her literar……続きを見る

Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer have emerged as important literary figures in the past ten years and scholars have increasingly realized that their bold and often unorthodox works cha……続きを見る

Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam, the first original drama written in English by a woman, has been a touchstone for feminist scholarship in the period for several decades and is now one of the mos……続きを見る

A Room of One's Own is an essay based on a series of lectures Virginia Woolf delivered at Cambridge University in 1928. The argument she makes in this pioneering work of feminism is that in order to……続きを見る

Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, “art for art’s s……続きを見る

El autor nos presenta seis rigurosos estudios sobre igual número de personajes que influyeron notablemente en la vida de sor Juana, aunque de diversa manera; mientras unos la alentaron a seguir sus ……続きを見る

Un voz infantil de niña lanza una pregunta: ¿Cuál es la bella más mujer?... De esta torsión de la clásica pregunta, formulada por la Madrastra de Blancanieves a su espejo mágico, parte este profundo……続きを見る

Caterina Riba presenta aquest estudi sobre l'obra de Maria-Mercè Marçal des de la "permeabilitat", des de la intertextualitat i el procés obert de significació que permet la seva poesia. La primera ……続きを見る

A finales del siglo XIX, Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer aseveraba: "Nada debiera ser tan satisfactorio para una mujer, como ensalzar los esclarecidos talentos de otras mujeres, ya que con la gloria re……続きを見る

Imagine ter acesso ao universo particular da grande dama da literatura brasileira! Este livro de fragmentos conta com entrevistas concedidas a um time de jornalistas de cultura; memórias de sua amiz……続きを見る

Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and no……続きを見る

This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s work. It includ……続きを見る

In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.In Mansfield Park, she appears to baseFanny……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The London Scene: Six Essays on London" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. These six essential essays capture Woolf at her……続きを見る

In 'Adam Bede' von George Eliot wird die Geschichte des jungen Zimmermanns Adam Bede erzählt, der in einer ländlichen Gemeinde im England des 18. Jahrhunderts lebt. Das Buch zeichnet sich durch eine……続きを見る

Through her selection of fourteen essays, Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery by feminist critics of the Victorian Women Poets such as Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossett……続きを見る

July 2005. London is hit by a coordinated terrorist attack. Jamie’s boyfriend disappears without a trace. Hundreds of miles away in Cornwall, how can Jamie find out what has happened to him? The ini……続きを見る

Mujeres en tránsito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1810-1930) parte de la incidencia que los relatos de viaje (extranjeros y locales) tuvieron en la formación discursiva de las socieda……続きを見る

The word Gothic has connotations of violence and grotesqueness. The popular Gothic elements are blood and gore, unnatural and supernatural occurrences, eerie passages, mystery, haunted castles, ghos……続きを見る