Feminist Criticism category: 436 books
Virginia Woolf
The Will to Create as a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
This groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf is also an account of the intertwined lives of two extraordinary women.
In 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD—the youngest person ever to do so—with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935,...
by Alexandra Pierce (ed), Alisa Krasnostein (ed)
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Alice Sheldon’s birth, and in recognition of the enormous influence of James Tiptree Jr (Sheldon's pen-name) and Sheldon on the field, Twelfth Planet Press has published a selection of thoughtful letters written by science fiction and fantasy’s writers,...
by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.
Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled...
Politics, Theory, and Film
Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed...
The Right to Write
The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women...
Rewriting the Victorians
Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology,...
Women Who Did
Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
"A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes of the new woman, as she encountered...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature-the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range...
Women Constructing Men
Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750 - 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters_heroes and villains_as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany,...
Elizabeth Bishop
Her Poetics of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 1994
Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work—poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material—to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in...
Labor Pains
Emerson, Hawthorne, & Alcott on Work, Women, & the Development of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This book explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Maibor reveals how the writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott delve into notions of equality through this emphasis on labor. In doing so she challenges the traditional view of Emerson as unconcerned with societal issues, and opens the work of Hawthorne and Alcott to new feminist readings.
Sisterhood Is Forever
The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Thirty years after Robin Morgan's groundbreaking anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful -- named by The American Librarians' Association one of "The 100 Most Influential Books of the Twentieth Century" -- comes this landmark new collection for the twenty-first century.
Sisterhood Is Forever -- with over...
Essential Novelists - Kate Chopin
awakening of the women
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.
For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of **Kate Chopin **which are The Awakening and At Fault.
Kate Chopin is a novelist...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Table of Contents -
The American
The Turn of the Screw
The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2
The Wings of the Dove, Volume 2 of 2
Daisy Miller
The Ambassadors
The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
What Maisie Knew
The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story in which...