A study in the courage of three women: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Moments of great intensity in their lives, when each faced a decision that would shape her legacy
Portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf show how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contempo…
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Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the importa…
Grounded in social history, this text refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. It examines the tales told by the "conteuses" (French story-telling women in the 1690s) and the late 20th-century tales by women writers that derive in part from this centuries-old tra…
This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni M…
' Postmodernism' and ' feminism' have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waug…
