Women Authors category: 700 books
Sexual Sameness (Routledge Revivals)
Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
First published in 1992, Sexual Sameness examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexuality. Examining such writers as E.M. Forster, James Baldwin, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Audre Lourde, this wide-ranging book demonstrates how literature has...
The Astral H.D.
Occult and Religious Sources and Contexts for H.D.’s Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Modernist poet H.D. had many visionary and paranormal experiences throughout her life. Although Sigmund Freud worried that they might be 'symptoms,' she rebelled, educating herself in the alternative world of the occult and spiritualism in order to transform the raw material into a mythical autobiography...
The Rash Resolve and Life's Progress
by Eliza Haywood
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Eliza Haywood was one of the most popular and versatile writers of the eighteenth century. The two novellas in this edition – The Rash Resolve (1724) and Life’s Progress (1748) – show her developing and adapting her ideas on the subject of passion and romance. Though superficially presented as cautionary tales, Haywood introduces a feminist slant.
by Courtney McDermott
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
At the Chickasaw Motel, three generations of the McGuinness clan are led by their elderly and overbearing patriarch. Only little Riley, “the smartest f-ing kid”, is spared the brunt of Grandpa McGuinness’s cruelty; ironically, it is his encouragement that provides her with a way out.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
L.M. Montgomery’s writings are replete with enchanting yet subtle and fluid depictions of nature that convey her intense appreciation for the natural world. At a time of ecological crises, intensifying environmental anxiety, and burgeoning eco-critical perspectives, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter...
Gendered Pathologies
The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. According to medical and scientific views of the period, the woman who did not conform to the dictates of gender...
by Gina Luria Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Mary Hays worked alone in compiling the 302 entries that make up Female Biography (1803). By contrast, producing a modern, critical edition of the work relied on the expertise of 168 scholars across 18 countries. Essays in this collection focus on the exhaustive research, editorial challenges and innovative responses involved in this project.
Love in Our Language
Stories Heard Across Water
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
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THE WRITER AND REALITY
Jane Austen and Her World
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
One hundred and ninety nine years ago, in an English country churchyard, a lady was laid to rest who enraptures the hearts of millions around the world today. She was only forty one years old, and had never married, though her thoughts were all of girls in love with love and getting wed; and from...
by Kathryn E. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion is a meditation on Persuasion as a text in which Jane Austen, writing in the Age of Revolution, enters the conversation of her epoch. Poets, philosophers, theologians and political thinkers of the long eighteenth century, including William Cowper, George Gordon...
Jane Austen and the Arts
Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, Harmony presents Jane Austen as a self-conscious artist, a woman keenly aware that literature and aesthetics were to play an important role in the education and development of British society. The scope of the book is interdisciplinary and international,...
Janet Frame
Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
In Janet Frame: Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction, Paul Matthew St. Pierre exploits the linguistic discipline of semiotics and the neurobiological discipline of biosemiotics to propose an original and dynamic reading of the first four works of fiction by New Zealand writer Janet Frame...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature offers an introduction to key debates in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present. It addresses one of the longest standing controversies in literary history: the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable treatments of human sexuality....
Amigos de sor Juana
Sexteto biográfico
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 10, 2014
El autor nos presenta seis rigurosos estudios sobre igual número de personajes que influyeron notablemente en la vida de sor Juana, aunque de diversa manera; mientras unos la alentaron a seguir sus inquietudes intelectuales y creadoras, otros intentaron fortalecer su vocación religiosa. Esta obra...