Women Authors 28

Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South’s and the nation’s most notable writers. A native of New Orleans ……続きを見る

Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, ……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE 2013 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST EDUCATIONAL/SCHOLARLY WORK Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and ……続きを見る

Nel 2012 Elsa Morante avrebbe compiuto cent'anni. Per festeggiarla la Società Italiana delle Letterate le ha dedicato il 3 e 4 novembre 2012 un incontro alla Casa internazionale delle donne di Roma,……続きを見る

Edith Wharton and Willa Cather wrote many of the most enduring American novels from the first half of the twentieth century, including Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innoc……続きを見る

First published in 1990, this is the first book-length study of Susan Sontag: essayist and analyst of culture, author of ‘Notes on Camp’ and Illness as Metaphor, novelist, reviewer, and filmmaker. I……続きを見る

Un'imperdibile antologia dei testi di 8 rimatrici del Cinquecento che gettano nuova luce sulla produzione letteraria di un secolo fulgido per la letteratura italiana. Questa straordinaria antologia ……続きを見る

Reviled by critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critical interest. In The Myth of Superwoman, originally published in 1990, Resa Dudovitz looks……続きを見る

After the Second World War, Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. “I've got to help him,” she said. “You see, we are both members of a minorit……続きを見る

Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of “femi……続きを見る

Esiste un'epica femminile? I saggi raccolti nel volume partono da questa domanda, e perciò indagano la definizione stessa di questo genere antico e in continua trasformazione, rintracciando le forme……続きを見る

Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been knownーalong with Larry Brown and Lee Smithーas a purveyor of the working-class, contem……続きを見る

Edith Ayrton Zangwill's 1924 novel The Call is widely regarded as one of the most important suffrage novels of the early 20th century. Including authoritative notes and commentary throughout, this i……続きを見る

A comprehensive study of the award-winning Midwestern author of fiction and nonfiction Alex Engebretson offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson's fiction and essays to date, provi……続きを見る

Originally published in 1992. In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist? Was she an isolated genius who rose to fame throu……続きを見る

Contributions by Jacob Agner, Susan V. Donaldson, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller, Jean C. Griffith, Ebony Lumumba, Rebecca Mark, Donnie McMahand, Kevin Murphy, Harriet Pollack, Christin Mar……続きを見る

Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. These cultural encounters informed her work as much as ……続きを見る

This book offers readings of five of the most interesting and original voices to have emerged in Britain since the millennium as they tackle the challenges of portraying the new century. Through clo……続きを見る

This book traces the development of a Left feminist consciousness as women became more actively involved in the American Left during and immediately following World War II. McDonald argues that wome……続きを見る

With a confidante’s insights, Marta Dvořák sets up an innovative connection between Mavis Gallant’s dazzling writing and the whole spectrum of the arts. She simultaneously engages with the feats of ……続きを見る

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian literary world has not only experienced a true blossoming of women’s prose, but has also witnessed a number of female authors assume the roles o……続きを見る

Réparer les vivants - Un roman bouleversant sur le don d'organes Dans ce roman poignant de Maylis de Kerangal, suivez le destin d'un cœur pendant 24 heures cruciales. Simon, jeune surfeur de 19 ans,……続きを見る

Explorez le chemin sinueux de la résilience à travers l’analyse fine du deuil, des émotions et de la reconstruction personnelle, dans ce guide incontournable pour comprendre Les gens heureux lisent ……続きを見る

Hardcore bibliography meets Antiques Roadshow in an illustrated exploration of the role that cheap reprints played in Jane Austen's literary celebrityーand in changing the larger book world itself. ……続きを見る

Following the publication of The Age of Innocence in 1920,Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. To mark 100 years since the book's first publication, Edith Wharton's The Ag……続きを見る

From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother's Day to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the writings of……続きを見る

You’ve read the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. You thought it was a great sci-fi novel. But what if it wasn’t? What if it was an even better psychological thriller instead? Arthur Belefant did ……続きを見る

Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante’s intense depiction of ……続きを見る

What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no ……続きを見る

Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkwort……続きを見る