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Twenty-first-century fiction

Contemporary British voices

by Daniel Lea
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

This book offers readings of five of the most interesting and original voices to have emerged in Britain since the millennium as they tackle the challenges of portraying the new century. Through close readings of the work of Ali Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Hall and Jon McGregor, Daniel...
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The Power of Smell in American Literature

Odor, Affect, and Social Inequality

by Daniela Babilon
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establishing and subverting power structures. Although smell carries an enormous affective potential, it has been largely – but unjustly – overlooked in literary...
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Dorothy Parker

What Fresh Hell Is This?

by Marion Meade
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1989

Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table...
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Jane Austen

A Brief Life

by Fiona Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention...
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Charlotte Brontë

A Fiery Heart

by Claire Harman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Brontë from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Brontë famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing...
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Thinking Out Loud

On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

by Anna Quindlen
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010

"A splendid collection...Eloquent, powerful, compassionate and droll. There is considerable variety in the subjects she addresses....Compelling." THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER Thinking out loud is what Anna Quindlen does best. A syndicated columnist with her finger on the pulse of women's lives,...
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Emma (complete & Illustrated)

With twenty-four colored illustrations

by Jane austen
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy...
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by Carl Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011

An increasingly popular genre – addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics – travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. In this volume, Carl Thompson: introduces the genre, outlining competing...
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by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013

FEATURES:      •     Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations      •     A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book      •     Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the...
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by Eavan Boland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011

“Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. . . . Her vivid imagery will beguile many.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review These inspiring essays from the celebrated poet Eavan Boland are both critical and deeply personal, revealing the adventure, passion, and struggle of...
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The Mockingbird Next Door

Life with Harper Lee

by Marja Mills
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel’s celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee, known...
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by Juliana Spahr, Stephanie Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

A Megaphone collects a number of enactments that Spahr and Young did between the years of 2005-2007. In these enactments, they attempted to think with the playful dogmatism of a feminist tradition that they call "crotchless pants and a machine gun" (obviously referencing Valie Export) in order to locate...
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by Emma Staniland
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015

This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns...
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Something Complete and Great

The Centennial Study of My Ántonia

by Janis P. Stout, Caterina Bernardini, Melissa J. Homestead
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

This volume situates My Ántonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis and assessment of complexities in the novel...
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