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An insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority. This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic a……続きを見る

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick examines the ways Zora Neale Hurston circumvented the constraints of the white publishing world and a predominantly white readership to critique white cu……続きを見る

This book focuses on the collaborative work between Native women storytellers and their female ethnographers and/or editors, but the book is also about what it is that is constitutive of scientific ……続きを見る

Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's workーpoetry, prose, and selected unpublished materialーto reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid……続きを見る

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in s……続きを見る

“Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” ー Minneapolis Star ……続きを見る

Strong, sassy, always surprisingーand titled after a Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” monologue by Tina FeyーBitch Is the New Black is a deliciously addictive memoir-in-essays in which Helena An……続きを見る

Who is really controlling the pen? Editor Daniel Halpern was profoundly curious about the creative processーso he asked fifty-five world-renowned writers to briefly muse on "the fictional persona be……続きを見る

"Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, ……続きを見る

Poetry. Beautiful words, song lyrics, humorous limericks, it all counts. Long used to speak ones heart and let’s be frank, woo the opposite sex, it comes in every genre, from vicious and bloody to h……続きを見る

Olivia in India by Anna Masterton Buchan the Scottish novelist who wrote under the pen name O. Douglas.This book was a historical duplication that wrote in 1912.Most of her novels were written and s……続きを見る

One hundred and ninety nine years ago, in an English country churchyard, a lady was laid to rest who enraptures the hearts of millions around the world today. She was only forty one years old, and h……続きを見る

Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical edu……続きを見る

The Victim of Fancy was first published in December 1787 and, despite favourable reviews, has not been published since. Cook's new scholarly edition of this forgotten novel will be of paramount impo……続きを見る

A novel, which addresses central themes of adultery, obsession and inheritance. It follows the fortunes of Matilda Melbourne who displays virtue, delicacy and an unwavering commitment to the sometim……続きを見る

A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty’s full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pear……続きを見る

Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics an……続きを見る

This book investigates the perceptions of motherhood in Spanish author Lucía Etxebarria’s fiction and offers views of the importance of motherhood in society. Traditional expectations for women as m……続きを見る

This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural conte……続きを見る

Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their crea……続きを見る

Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a "typical American" writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town; a collection o……続きを見る

In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the ……続きを見る

Mujeres en transito examines in detail the insightful accounts of four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the nineteenth century: the French Peruvian socialist and ac……続きを見る

J’avais seize ans lorsque je fus reçu bachelier à Bourges. Les études de province ne sont pas très-fortes. Je n’en passais pas moins pour l’aigle du lycée. Heureusement pour moi, j’étais aussi modes……続きを見る

One day, when Mary Rose Callaghan was 13, her mother jumped into the freezing Irish Sea. Knowing that her mother was an asthmatic, the shock of seeing her dive into “the deep end” began Mary Rose’s ……続きを見る

In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.S. women of color to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice, arguing that personal health and social just……続きを見る

Globalization and transnationalism have reshaped our communities and their borderlines. Communities exceed fixed boundaries, existing instead in the liminal spaces where narratives intersect, clash,……続きを見る

The book examines the relationship between translation and original creation in the works of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, suggesting that translation can be seen as a poetic principle which c……続きを見る

… Presque chaque jour, elle s’assied, sur la véranda, scrutant l’horizon et espérant voir arriver son père. Comme ce jour là, alors qu’elle est sur son poste d’observation, Tarii croit reconnaître a……続きを見る

ELLE sentit que l’on effleurait son bras, et violemment elle tressaillit comme au sortir d’une pensée trop absorbante dont il faut se détacher tout de suite, alors que notre âme engourdie proteste :……続きを見る