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Willa Cather and Aestheticism

In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cather's fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices.

Women's Writing in English: Early Modern England

Trois conférences

Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature

Weaving strands of Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities, Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas explores political and theoretical agendas, particularly those that undermine the patriarchy, across a diverse range of Latina authors.

Germaine de Staël in Germany: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850)

Germaine de Staël and German Women: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Staël's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of German women, including Caroline A.

The Peaceful Army

Margaret Preston on Australian women artists; Miles Franklin on suffragist Rose Scott; Eleanor Dark on Caroline Chisholm; Kylie Tennant on the future.

Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals): Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s

First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s.

Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives From Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer

In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible.

Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps (Volume 2)

Reading In: Alice Munro's Archives

What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer's archive?Collections of authors' manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published text.

Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food

Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S.

Corporeal Bonds: The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women's Writing

The mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study.

My Career Goes Bung

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 - 19 September 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901.

Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime.

The Historical Austen

Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions

A collection of essays that reexamine literature through a feminist gaze from "one of our most versatile and gifted writers" (Joyce Carol Oates)."We think back through our mothers if we are women," wrote Virginia Woolf.

Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist

""Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the final thirteen years of her life on her isolated family farm in rural Georgia.

Nadine Gordimer: Weaving Together Fiction, Women and Politics

A fascinating intersection of intellectual minds, this literary critique views the writing of Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer through the fresh perspective of a respected French academic.

Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

One of the twentieth century's most intriguing and complicated literary friendships was that between Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility

What's so friendly about Jane Austen?Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed enthusiasm for her timeless novels.

Blood and Irony

During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity.

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think

These nonfiction works span from the 1960s to the 2000s and were produced by one of the great fiction writers of the period. They add critical depth to Shirley Hazzard's creative world and encapsulate her extensive and informed thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia.

The Binding Vine

There can be no vaulting over time," thinks Urmila, the narrator of Shashi Deshpande's profound and soul-stirring novel. We have to walk every step of the way, however difficult or painful it is; we can avoid nothing.

Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction: Novel Ethics

Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

Pride and Prejudice

Illustrations Free Audiobook Links Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature.

Jane Austen (RLE Jane Austen): The Six Novels

Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940

Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing: Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

In the Thick of the Fight

One of the most memorable images of the British women's suffrage movement occurred on June 4, Derby Day, 1913. As the field of horses approached a turning at Epsom, militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison ducked out from under the railing and ran onto the track, reaching for the bridle of the King's horse, and was killed in the collision.

Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature

Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society.

The Right to Write: The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley

The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production.

Fault Lines

Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander's memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Fault Lines, this Alexander challenges the assumptions of life as a South Asian American woman writer in a post-9-11 world.

Agatha Christie

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read.

A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet

""Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. .

The Art of Memoir

Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list.

House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women

How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista's electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center.

My Ántonia (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

The Changing Face of Motherhood in Spain: The Social Construction of Maternity in the Works of Lucía Etxebarria

This book investigates the perceptions of motherhood in Spanish author Lucía Etxebarria's fiction and offers views of the importance of motherhood in society.

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature