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An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present. In a narrative of immense scop...
Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Onderzoekt de seksuele atmosfeer van het eind van 19e eeuw, zoekt paralellen met beelden uit de 20ste eeuw, legt verbanden tussen decadentie, homoseks...
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...
Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage
Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of fem...
British Women Novelistfrom Brontë to Lessing
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Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing
IN THIS BOOK, ELAINE SHOWALTER EXAMINES WHETHER OR NOT COMMON THREADS CONNECT AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS FROM DIFFERENT ERAS AND BACKGROUNDS IN A COHERENT...
"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mys...
The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
In the days before there were handbooks, self-help guides, or advice columns for graduate students and junior faculty, there were academic novels teac...
A Biography
A biography of Julia Ward Howe, a groundbreaking figure in the abolitionist and suffrage movements....
One of the best loved books of all time. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Lovely Meg, talented Jo,...
`It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like...
An encyclopedia of American women writers, examining the lives and works of forty-one authors including Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Adrienne Rich, and ...
In France between 1641 and 1782 the romance developed into the novel. Mr. Showalter's intensive study of the novel, particularly during the critical p...
Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media
Filled with fascinating new perspectives on a culture saturated with syndromes of every sort, "Hystories" skillfully surveys the condition of hysteria...
British Women Novelist from Brontë to Lessing
An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present....
The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing
A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging. How old am I? Don’t ask, don’t tell. As the baby boome...
From Charlotte Brontë to Doris Lessing
Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of an extraordinary frien...
And, Dear Enemy
Chronicles the adventures of orphan and college student, Judy Abbott, through her letters to her anonymous benefactor, Daddy Long Legs....
For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history. That injustice is corrected in this entertaining and provocati...
British Women Novelists from Charlotte Brontë to Doris Lessing
First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered the popular imagination. George Du Maur...
Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism