Gendering Classicism explores the intersection of feminism, historical fiction, and modernism through the work of six writers, all of whom wrote historical novels set in ancient Greece or Rome: Naomi Mitchison, Mary Butts, Laura Riding, Phyllis Bentley, Bryher, and Mary Renault.…
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"The opportunities offered by the explosion of knowledge about early modern women writers in the past two decades also pose a sometimes formidable challenge. For some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women writers-Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, Margaret Caven…
This title provides an introduction to the ever-expanding field of early modern women's writing by reading texts in their historical and social contexts. It discusses many neglected texts and authors, as well as more familiar figures.
"Hannah More (1745-1833), the daughter of an obscure schoolmaster, began her working life as a teacher at her sisters' school in Bristol. In her thirtieth year she came to London to persuade the actor-manager David Garrick to put on one of her plays. Her subsequent career as pla…
Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the fi…
The collection of writings range from poetry to philosophical treatises, addresses a wide array of subjects including law, gender, education, motherhood, medicine, religion, life-writing and arts. Each selection is paired with a reproduced facsimile of the text's original source…
Publisher's description: Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. This remarkable anthology assembles for the first time 144 primary texts and documents written by women…
"In Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts, Kathleen J. Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the powerful myth of the family as it is constructed in nineteenth-century British and colonial texts. Reading the fiction of Jamaic…
"In Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts, Kathleen J. Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the powerful myth of the family as it is constructed in nineteenth-century British and colonial texts. Reading the fiction of Jamaic…
An anthology by women writers from the Caribbean. Haiti's Edwidge Danticat contributes Night Women, a story about prostitutes, and Jamaica's Carmen Tipling contributes Lunchtime Revolution, a play on a coup d'etat by amateurs.
An anthology by women writers from the Caribbean. Haiti's Edwidge Danticat contributes Night Women, a story about prostitutes, and Jamaica's Carmen Tipling contributes Lunchtime Revolution, a play on a coup d'etat by amateurs.
Betoogd wordt dat teksten van Britse witte vrouwen die ageerden tegen slavernij onderdeel waren van een koloniaal en imperialistisch vertoog.
