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  • Gender, Genre & Narrative Pleasure

    Edited by Derek Longhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents regarded popular fiction as the negative which offered definition to the exposure of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years

    Edited by Annette R. Federico ...
    When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds both valuable reassessments and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Ambiguous Discourse

    Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers

    Edited by Kathy Mezei ...
    Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection of twelve essays is the first book devoted to feminist narratology — the combination of ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Victorian Women's Fiction

    Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual

    by Shirley Foster ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    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 ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • «My Name is Freida Sima»

    The American-Jewish Women’s Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

    by Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz ...
    Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Women's Lives

    The View from the Threshold

    by Carolyn Heilbrun ...
    Series series Alexander Lectures
    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 of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. In ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Women Writing and Writing about Women

    Edited by Mary Jacobus ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women.Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise some of the problems of theory and practice posed by writing as a woman and by women’s representation in literature. The subjects ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • (Un)like Subjects

    Women, Theory, Fiction

    by Gerardine Meaney ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature?This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied the three most influential French feminists and three important contemporary British women novelists. ... Read more

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  • Abjection, Melancholia and Love

    The Work of Julia Kristeva

    Edited by John Fletcher, Andrew Benjamin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ‘The Adolescent Novel’, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ‘open structure’. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva’s work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis.The essays in this ... Read more

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  • Feminine Fictions

    Revisiting the Postmodern

    by Patricia Waugh ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    ‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis ... Read more

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  • New Feminist Discourses

    Critical Essays on Theories and Texts

    Edited by Isobel Armstrong ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered knowledge and the implications of accounts of gendered language, cultural restraints on the ... Read more

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  • Where No Man has Gone Before

    Essays on Women and Science Fiction

    Edited by Lucie Armitt ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    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 upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry?These are just some of the questions addressed by this ... Read more

    $77.99 USD