Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Words for a Small Planet
Ecocritical Views
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays...
Edging Women Out
Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist...
The Barbara Johnson Reader
The Surprise of Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of literary...
Women and Tudor Tragedy
Feminizing Counsel and Representing Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The role of women as writers, literary and dramatic characters, and real queens in early modern Europe was central to the development of Tudor ideas about gender and women’s place in society. Women and Tudor Tragedy investigates the link between gender and genre, identifying the relation between...
The Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Italy
Degeneration and Regeneration in Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In the 1880s and 1890s, materialism in art was counterbalanced by attention to the subjective individual experience, expressed in the new modes inaugurated by Symbolism, Decadence and Aestheticism. In particular, Decadent artists and writers inspired the lasting name of an age fascinated by the contemplation...
The Embodied Child
Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture....
by Emily Stipes Watts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
American women have created an especially vigorous and innovative poetry, beginning in 1632 when Anne Bradstreet set aside her needle and picked up her "poet's pen." The topics of American women poets have been various, their images their own, and their modes of expression original. Emily...
Genius Envy
Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.”...
Jane Austen (RLE Jane Austen)
A French Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
First published in 1924, this unique title provides an extremely valuable early Twentieth Century perspective on Jane Austen, offering analysis from both sides of the channel. The book includes both a translated study of Jane Austen by French academic Léonie Villard, and a study by influential...
Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy
Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy examines the extraordinary focus on coy women in late seventeenth-century English comedy. Plays by Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Behn, Shadwell, Congreve, Trotter, Southerne, Vanbrugh, and Pix—as well as much modern scholarship about them—taint almost all...
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Experiments in Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks...
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis
Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique, Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D, utilizes ecocriticism and ecofeminism to develop his concept of transversal practice: an interdisciplinary combination of theory and applied criticism. He begins by explaining...
British Women Writers of the Romantic Period
An Anthology of their Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
This timely anthology offers a broad selection of critical texts - introductions, prefaces, periodical essays, literary reviews - written by women of the Romantic era. The collection offers fuel for some of the most topical debates in British Romantic period studies including professionalism, nationalism and the literary canon.
by Élise Desaulniers
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Considéré dans ce texte: Girls et Lena Dunham. L’étiquette en matière de sexe à la télé. La vingtaine. Le Gatorade, la limonade et les expériences de vie significatives.