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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada. Focu……続きを見る

This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism and the middlebrow, show Macaulay’s attentiveness to……続きを見る

A significant and prolific francophone writer and filmmaker, Assia Djebar is celebrated for her experimental, multilingual prose and her nuanced, imaginative representations of Algeria. From her fir……続きを見る

After being snatched from her Manhattan comfort zone and thrusted into the unfamiliarity of Baltimore City; endearing, elegant and enterprising, Mackenzie Daye excited about life and the anticipatio……続きを見る

The iridescent Mackenzie finds herself completely submerged in a sea of uncertainty. Faced with the harsh and heartbreaking reality that she could lose both of her parents; she begins to try to find……続きを見る

The book is a story about a king, his wife and daughter and his sarch for a wife after his wife's death. The King has one wish, a woman whose hands will fit perfectly into the Queen's bracelet. 続きを見る

The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature offers an introduction to key debates in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present. It addresses one of the longest standing controver……続きを見る

La fascinante historia que hay detrás del antifaz que llevan las voces femeninas que escuchó el país a través del radio revela el rostro de damas que desde diferentes profesiones fueron abriéndose p……続きを見る

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth centuryーa century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the ……続きを見る

In Spain, the two hundred years that elapsed between the beginning of the early modern period and the final years of the Habsburg Empire saw a profusion of works written by women. Whether secular or……続きを見る

First ladies don't just take care of the first family. They also do many important works too. Some of them even do impressive jobs that they leave a mark in history books. An example is Eleanor Roos……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of marriage by women novelists between 1800 and 1900. It investigates the ways in which these novelists used the cultural form of the n……続きを見る

According to Gigi Anders, when you’re a bride-to-be Jubana in America, or a Cuban Jewess in the US of A, you have to know you’re heading straight into the mondo-bizarro jaws of cross cultural hell. ……続きを見る

This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women’s travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit women’s space in print culture. For th……続きを見る

This edited volume is the first to reflect on the theory and practice of editing women’s writing of the 18th century. The list of contributors includes experts on the fiction, drama, poetry, life-wr……続きを見る

In 'Christa Ruland' von Hedwig Dohm wird die Geschichte einer jungen Frau erzählt, die im Berlin des 19. Jahrhunderts um Selbstbestimmung und Unabhängigkeit kämpft. Der Roman behandelt Themen wie we……続きを見る

An early example of satirical political writing by a woman. The book, with its blend of politics and sexuality, is based on the public and private lives of prominent politicians and society figures ……続きを見る

This collection brings together critical essays that examine questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sand……続きを見る

In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and ……続きを見る

Is a woman’s writing different from a man’s? Many scholars ー and readers ー think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women’s novels enact the theories that women theorists……続きを見る

From her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical ph……続きを見る

Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writer……続きを見る

WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day……続きを見る

As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1890–1979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the ……続きを見る

In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century’s most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley’s landmar……続きを見る

This bookworks across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aestheti……続きを見る

Mary Hays worked alone in compiling the 302 entries that make up Female Biography (1803). By contrast, producing a modern, critical edition of the work relied on the expertise of 168 scholars across……続きを見る

There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academic circles. The Future of Eighteenth-Century Feminis……続きを見る

This volume situates My Ántonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf's 'The Complete Novels of Virginia Woolf' offers readers a glimpse into the complexities of human relationships and the inner workings of the human mind. Known for her stream-of-consc……続きを見る