NEC - Women Authors 1

Questioning hegemonic masculinity in literature is not novel. In the nineteenth century, under the July Monarchy (1830ー1848), several French writers depicted characters who did not conform to gende……続きを見る

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen, was aus Judith Hermann, Karen Duve, Juli Zeh und den vielen anderen Autorinnen geworden ist, die um die Jahrtausendwende unter dem Markenzeichen «Fräuleinwund……続きを見る

Attempts to approach the topic of drink and literature and the question of how far this is interconnected with the habits of the writers can be considered within the wider frame of what is called dr……続きを見る

À l’heure où se banalisent les discours féministes et, avec eux, une conception universelle de l’émancipation　; à l’heure où les questions de différence et d’intégration deviennent cruciales pour p……続きを見る

Le 15 août 1947, au moment où l’Inde obtenait son indépendance, l’Asie du Sud donnait naissance à un nouvel État, le Pakistan, disloqué entre l’extrême ouest et l’extrême est du Sous-continent. Cett……続きを見る

In Fortsetzung des Arbeitsprogramms der Forschungsgruppe widmet sich dieser Band wiederum einer ungewohnten Perspektive der Rezeptionsliteratur, nämlich der Aufnahme von deutschsprachigen Werken der……続きを見る

Many writers have dabbled in a range of genres, but few have so successfully contributed influential work to so many as Dorothy Sayers. From detective fiction to theological treatises to popular dra……続きを見る

The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature sets Tolkien’s theory of Fantasy against the backdrop of Western history of phantasia, all the……続きを見る

In "Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley," Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley presents a profound exploration of her late husband's poetic legacy. This critical work combines schola……続きを見る

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both clas……続きを見る

The novels of Storm Jameson and their depictions of Britain's relationship to Europe around the Second World War represent a crucial departure from the work of her contemporaries. As the first femal……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

The essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts; Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen’s understanding of the arts, her aesthetic philosophy, and her role as artist. Together, they explor……続きを見る

A lively and far-ranging interest in place, space, and situation characterizes the work of Romantic-era British author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Featuring ten original essays, an introduction and……続きを見る

Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work of two women, each a cultural icon in her own count……続きを見る

Before Jane Austen's novels explored heroines in English society, writers Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier dared to provide commentary on gender and education through self-conscious narratives. Publi……続きを見る

An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literature In this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Car……続きを見る