Women Authors 52

Desde hace unos años hemos visto cómo la figura del vampiro ha pasado de ser una que infunde terror, a una que desata pasiones, un don Juan. El vampirismo es el nuevo donjuanismo, por lo que hablare……続きを見る

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was an active corresponde……続きを見る

Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal co……続きを見る

In der Post-Wahrheit-Ära verschwimmen Wahrheit und Fiktion in bisher ungekanntem Ausmaß. Die Verlässlichkeit unabhängiger Medien wird seit den 1960er/70er Jahren angezweifelt. Dies führt zu Schwieri……続きを見る

A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a……続きを見る

Kristin M. Girten tells a new story of feminist knowledge-making in the Enlightenment era by exploring the British female philosophers who asserted their authority through the celebration of profoun……続きを見る

Winner of the Bancroft Prize for American History The only comprehensive biography of the astute observer and diarist Alice James, whose life and legacy were long overshadowed by her two famous brot……続きを見る

Mittelhochdeutsche Heldenepik erzählt häufig und ausführlich von körperlicher Gewalt in Form von Schlachten und Zweikämpfen. Diese offensichtliche Faszination für das Erzählen von Gewalt, so schlägt……続きを見る

An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized w……続きを見る

In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford’s Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as “the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside.” Hannah……続きを見る

Finalist, 2025 Frances Fuller Victor Award in General Nonfiction, Oregon Book Awards Honorable Mention, 2024 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association One Sunday afternoon in Fe……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women’s movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals. Ju……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

Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels achieved stunning global success in part because of the mystery surrounding their pseudonymous author. English-speaking readers were tantalized by her enigmatic bi……続きを見る

Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories o……続きを見る

«Name ist Schall und Rauch», heißt es in Goethes Faust I. Diese Studie zeigt, dass Figurennamen allerdings viel mehr sind. Insbesondere die sprechenden Namen modellieren den Charakter und weisen Ide……続きを見る

Die medizinische Dimension in den Prosawerken von Günter Grass ist bis dato weitestgehend unerforscht. Die vorliegende Studie ist ein erster Versuch, diese Forschungslücke zu schließen. Sie widmet s……続きを見る

Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of Ameri……続きを見る

Vorliegender Band versammelt Vorträge, die auf einer gemeinsam von der UAM zu Posen und der CAU zu Kiel veranstalteten Konferenz im Jahre 2019 gehalten wurden. Damit liegt nun der vierte Band der Re……続きを見る

The twenty-four interviews collected in Conversations with Sarah Schulman, roughly a fifth of those that exist, have enabled Schulman to expound upon her distinctive fusion of art and social commitm……続きを見る

This book offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of ‘model women of the press’: women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented ……続きを見る

**A Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, Literary Hub, and BookPage “Difficult, brilliant, intensely personal and dazzlingly illuminating…hands down the most gripping ……続きを見る

Die Komplexität der Frau ohne Schatten mit ihrer Fülle an Kontrastbildungen, ihren multiperspektivischen Verknüpfungen sowie der märchenhaften und vielschichtigen Symbolwelt stellt sowohl für die wi……続きを見る

Con motivo del 80 cumpleaños de Joseph T. Snow, una centena de investigadores se dio cita en «Contarte he maravillas…». Congreso Internacional de Estudios Medievales Hispánicos en honor a Joseph T. ……続きを見る

Jane Austen – novelist, forthright letter writer, daughter and sister of Anglican clergy – had a rarely-matched insight into human character. Like Lent itself, she exposes frailty, caprice and pompo……続きを見る

For decades, Jennifer Kloester has researched the life and work of Georgette Heyer. The author of Georgette Heyer's Regency World and Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller, the definitive biogr……続きを見る

"Just keep on living..." My late mother, the inspiration for Ageless Glamour Girls™, used to love saying this. I first heard it in my mid-twenties, but it didn't click until later in life when I beg……続きを見る

Much is made of the test scores, earning power, and innovative contributions of highly intelligent kids, but we rarely ask what it's actually like to be "gifted." In a culture obsessed with exceptio……続きを見る

Nella Parigi di inizio Novecento, venticinque secoli dopo Saffo, in una città mondana e libertina, tra i pizzi delle gonne al Moulin Rouge e i cocktail “al vetriolo” serviti nei salotti, una poetess……続きを見る

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British women’s writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that women writers employed the material and memorial ob……続きを見る