Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Dreams, Hallucinations, Dragons, the Unconscious, and Ekphrasis in German Romanticism
Ludwig Tieck's Skillful Study of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
When reading Ludwig Tieck’s texts, the reader becomes aware that dreams, the unconscious, and art play a key role. This study posits that Ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both analyzing a visual image and attempting to translate the visual into the verbal in order to gain a...
Where No Man has Gone Before
Essays on Women and Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?
To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics?
What has been the effect of this phenomenon...
Victorian Women's Fiction
Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial...
Virginia Woolf
A Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends recently unearthed documents, key primary sources, and personal interviews...
In a Queer Time and Place
Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative...
by Janet Todd
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.
Women's Lives
The View from the Threshold
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state...
Testimony from the Nazi Camps
French Women's Voices
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2004
This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the...
by Merja Makinen
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This Reader's Guide brings together, in an approachable form, the range of review and critical material on the novels of Jeanette Winterson. Covering all of Winterson's work, from Oranges are Not the Only Fruit to The PowerBook, Merja Makinen traces the early review reception of each novel on its...
After the Fall
The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith...
Stigmata
Escaping Texts
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Hélène Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a surprising extent. With the inclusion of Stigmata,...
by Sharon L. Jansen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Anne of France (1461-1522), daughter of Louis XI and sister of Charles VIII, was one of the most powerful women of the fifteenth century. She was referred to by her contemporaries as Madame la Grande, and remained an active and influential figure in France throughout her life. As the fifteenth century...
Aesthetic Hysteria
The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic...
Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing
The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify the guidelines...