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Emily Brontë Reappraised

Emily Brontë occupies a special place in the English literary canon.

L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s)

Denise Levertov in Company

Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was an award-winning author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose featuring the subjects of politics and war and, in later years, religion.

Alice Munro's Miraculous Art: Critical Essays

Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings.

Réhabilitation dun poète haïtien: Etzer Vilaire

The Heroine's Bookshelf

The literary canon is filled with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines, and legendary female authors. Like today's women, they too placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family.

Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds

With this critically acclaimed 1940 memoir, pioneering Japanese writer and activist Ayako Ishigaki made history.

Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography, and Mobility

Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography, and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all in different ways related to Italy.

千迴萬轉：張愛玲學重探

Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture: Challenging Cultural and Literary Conventions

Resistance Reimagined: Black Women's Critical Thought as Survival

Resistance Reimagined highlights unconventional modes of black women's activism within a society that has spoken so much of freedom but has granted it so selectively.

TEXT + KRITIK 221 - Terézia Mora

""In ihren Romanen und Erzählungen widmet sich Terézia Mora AuBenseitern und Heimatlosen, prekären Existenzen und Menschen auf der Suche (…).

Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature

Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain

After Agatha: Women Write Crime

After Agatha: Women Write Crime is the first book to examine how British, American and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing.

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven

This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women's theology-making and appeals for social justice.

Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism

Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange.

Cather Studies, Volume 13: Willa Cather's Pittsburgh

Willa Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Often forgotten among these essential locations has been Pittsburgh.

The Real Beatrix Potter

The Real Beatrix Potter is a fascinating and revealing biography of one of the world's most cherished children's authors.

The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction

Permanent Revolution: Essays

With a Foreword by Zoe Whittall."A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch.

Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon

Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain.

Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies

Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative management.

Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings

Revisiting Italy: British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844-61)

With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry.

Cannibal Angels: Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-Garde

In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil.

Texts, Images, Practices: Contemporary Perspectives on American, British and Polish Cultures

Texts, Images, Practices offers multidisciplinary readings of various texts of culture, including social and political phenomena, novels, memoirs, letters and articles in the press, musical, theatrical adaptation and food.

Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction

The Nonesuch is the name of one of Georgette Heyer's most famous novels. It means a person or thing without equal, and Georgette Heyer is certainly that.

Authorship, Literary Production and Censorship in the Late-Nineteenth Century: Gissing-Hamsun-Halit Ziya

Has censorship always been a threat to authorship and artistic production? How did the mass market, the reading public, political or economic concerns influence authors' creativity and literary production in the late nineteenth century?

After the Fall: On the Writings of Czeslaw Milosz

Tomasz Garbol's book reconstructs Czeslaw Milosz's poetic vision of the world after the Fall.

The I in the Making: Rethinking the Japanese shishosetsu in a Global Age

The book centres around the topic of subjectivity and self-representation in contemporary Japanese literature and offers a new approach to the genre of shishosetsu (the I-novel).

Placing Charlotte Smith

A lively and far-ranging interest in place, space, and situation characterizes the work of Romantic-era British author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806).

A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing

When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s.

Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women

In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S.

Matricide in Language: Writing Theory in Kristeva and Woolf

The nexus of psychoanalytic, literary, and philosophical approaches in this book focuses on an intertextual reading of Woolf and Kristeva in order to address the enigma of the persistent suppression of women's contributions to culture.

Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power

Presents a comparative study of fiction by late twentieth and twenty-first century women writers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

She-(d)evils? The Construction of a Female Tyrant as a Cultural Critique

Although Gothicism remains a popular subject of scholarly investigation, little attention has been paid to the figure of the Gothic female tyrant.

Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene

Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë's oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.

Understanding "Address Unknown": Analysis of Kressmann Taylor's novel

Analysis of Kressmann Taylor's novel "Address Unknown".

Anne around the World: L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic

What makes Anne of Green Gables an international, time-honoured classic? International audiences have described reading L.