Women Authors category: 700 books
Tracing Women's Romanticism
Gender, History, and Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Awarded the 2005 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize by the International Conference on Romanticism
This book explores a cosmopolitan tradition of nineteenth-century novels written in response to Germaine de Staël's originary novel of the artist as heroine, corinne. The first book to delineate...
Our Emily Dickinsons
American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who followed her. She situates Dickinson's originality in relation to her nineteenth-century audiences, including...
The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood
Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category...
by Susan Wells
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a number of related projects, and, with over four million copies sold, is as popular as ever. This study tells the story of the...
The Woman and the Lyre
Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1989
Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C.E and ending with Egeria in the fifth century C.E., Snyder profiles ancient Greek and Roman women writers, including lyric and elegiac poets and philosophers and other prose writers. The writers are allowed to speak for themselves, with as much translation...
Reading Contemporary African American Literature
Black Women’s Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African American Canon
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of contemporary African American popular fiction by women. Bragg’s study addresses why such work should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes the events and attitudes which account for the critical neglect of this...
by Carme Font
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a...
Regenerations / Régénérations
Canadian Women's Writing / Écriture des femmes au Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English and 5 in French. Regenerations was born out of the inaugural conference of the Canadian Writing Research...
Archives of Desire
The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history. Lockwood...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity...
Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing
Beyond Trishanku
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in...
by Allison Pease
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Bored women populate many of the most celebrated works of British modernist literature. Whether in popular offerings such as Robert Hitchens's The Garden of Allah, the esteemed middlebrow novels of May Sinclair or H. G. Wells, or now-canonized works such as Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, women's...
Mosaic of Fire
The Work of Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Mosaic of Fire examines the personal and artistic interactions of four innovative American modernist women writers—Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle—all active in the Greenwich Village cultural milieu of the first half of the twentieth century. Caroline Maun traces the...
Of Women Borne
A Literary Ethics of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an...