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Providing close readings of well-known British realist writers including Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Rose Tremain, Sarah Hall, Bernadine Evaristo and Zadie Smith, this book uses new directions in mater……続きを見る

Thanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl, Sanora Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), which might have been published in 1939 had her publi……続きを見る

Explore the deep spirituality of Jane Austen through her life and literature. Best known for her timeless novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma - all first publi……続きを見る

An insightful, provocative, and witty exploration of the relationship between motherhood and artーfor anyone who is a mother, wants to be, or has ever had one. What does a great artist who is also a……続きを見る

Bienvenidos a la serie de libros Novelistas Imprescindibles, donde les presentamos las mejores obras de autores notables. Para este libro, el crítico literario August Nemo ha elegido las dos novelas……続きを見る

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, picture……続きを見る

Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment. Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to her last completed project The Invisible Spy (1755) spanned the ……続きを見る

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time. Feminist writers in British Romanticism often developed alternatives to linear time. Viewing time as a system……続きを見る

When Angela Davis (b. 1944) was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in 1970 and after she successfully gained acquittal in the 1972 trial that garnered national and international attention, she……続きを見る

A reexamination of Austen’s unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novelsーand that challenges distinctions between her “early” and “late” work Jane Austen’s six nov……続きを見る

This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting on how the transnational sphere can serve to highlight voices that were at the ……続きを見る

Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own……続きを見る

George Sand è il nome che Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) assume come autrice a 27 anni nel 1832, ma non era una principiante, scriveva ogni giorno da quando era bambina. Con questa identità di scrittrice ……続きを見る

My Family is a collection of pen portraits on a few of the many animals with whom Mahadevi Varma chose to spend her life. Set in a time when human and non-human worlds were still permeable, the book……続きを見る

Maintaining that women's storytelling is a telling activity, Karen McPherson "reads for guilt" in novels by five twentieth-century writers--Simone de Beauvoir (L'Invitée), Marguerite Duras (Le ravis……続きを見る

Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753–1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth centuryーan actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popul……続きを見る

Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960ーa book that undermined the nation’s ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhoodーEdna O’Brien has provoked controversy in her nati……続きを見る

Giuliana Misserville si occupa di critica letteraria femminista e ha pubblicato saggi su Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras e Marie Susini. Da sempre appassionata di fantastico, con “Amor……続きを見る

All’incrocio tra critica letteraria e filosofia, il volume esplora la scrittura di Elena Ferrante e il rapporto tra soggettività e narrazione, individuando tre diverse partizioni. Mitopoiesi rilegge……続きを見る

The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring women’s role in the rise of the fairy tale and their ……続きを見る

Poetisa es una palabra dulce que dejamos de lado porque nos avergonzaba y sin embargo ahora vuelve en un pañuelo que nuestras antepasadas se ataron a la garganta de sus líricas roncas. Poetas y poet……続きを見る

Thomas J. Lyon Book Award from the Western Literature Association A Planetary Lens delves into the history of the photo-book, the materiality of the photographic image on the page, and the cultural ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2021 Eudora Welty Prize In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than th……続きを見る

Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805–1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she h……続きを見る

Sulla liberazione della donna è una attualissima, straordinaria intervista con Simone de Beauvoir che le venne fatta nel lontano 1977 per la rivista “Ombre rosse” da Anna Maria Verna. In questo col……続きを見る

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora. In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed ficti……続きを見る

In un’epoca in cui la ricerca della visibilità e della fama personale sembra dettare lo spirito dei tempi, leggere la biografia di Charlotte Brontë è quanto mai illuminante. L’autrice del capolavoro……続きを見る

"Se escribe la novela como si fuera un borrador que una paciente le deja a su siquiatra antes de desaparecer. Al ser la transcripción de un diario/informe, Informe bajo llave se lee como un texto de……続きを見る

This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers’ responses to India through the novel and travel writing to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their compl……続きを見る

This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby womenーeither authors or their charactersーtalk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways. "Talking back to Shakes……続きを見る