Author: Van Wienen, Mark Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "A meticulously researched, highly informed, carefully argued, and very accessible account of American socialism, socialists, and socialistic thinking, from the late nineteenth century through the 196...
Author: Homestead,Melissa J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through an exploration of women authors' engagements with copyright and married women's property laws, American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, revises nineteenth-century American lite...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisingly dif...
Description: Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which characterised the late early modern period. This collec...
Author: Broomhall, Susan / Spinks, Jennifer Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Employing an innovative range of materials from written sources to artworks, material objects, heritage sites and urban precincts, and combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touris...
Description: Focusing on Tudor and Jacobean women's religious literary activities, this volume explores the complex ways in which texts, authors and patrons responded to key religious, political, social and litera...
Author: Varty, Anne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of women's journals and magazines on the eve of the twentieth century offers a mixture of prophesy and retrospect looking forward to the new age and back at the birth of the modern wom...
Description: One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a na...
Author: Butler, Judith Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a na...
Author: Chute, Hillary L. Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, espec...
Author: DiBattista, Maria Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Ma...
Author: Allen, Chris Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Suggesting that women used literature as a means to engage in theology during the nineteenth century, Rebecca Styler examines works by writers who include Emma Worboise, Anne Bronte, Anna Jameson, Cla...
Author: Drewery, Claire Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exploring the short story's relationship to literary Modernism, Claire Drewery considers works by Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf. Drewery argues that the sho...
Author: Burns, Tony Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history...
Author: Beam, Dorri Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of au...
Author: Todd, Janet Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This innovative introduction by a leading scholar and edi...
Author: Thompson, Carl Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 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 th...
Author: Arnold, Jean Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West, arguing that gems symbolized the most closely held beliefs of the Victorians and thus can be considered "prism...
Author: Green,D. H. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In contrast to the widespread view that the Middle Ages were a static, unchanging period in which attitudes to women were uniformly negative, D. H. Green argues that around 1200 the conventional relat...
Author: Keane, Angela Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, ...
Description: The essays collected in this volume from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies offer entirely new research on women's acquisition and practice of literacy, on conventual liter...
Author: Woodworth, Megan A. Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In her study of late eighteenth-century women novelists, Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about their own liberty are present not only in their portrayal of heroines but also in their treatm...
Author: Rignall, John Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reading George Eliot as a European novelist among other European novelists, John Rignall explores her use of European travel, scenes and locations in her fiction and also places her novels in conversa...
Author: St. Pierre, Paul Matthew Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 a...
Author: Henson, Eithne Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examining representations of physical and metaphorical landscape in Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, Henson explores the way gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of ph...
Author: Friedman, Susan Stanford Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapt...
Author: Grimes, Hilary Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examining technological advances, genre and late nineteenth-century mental science, Grimes shows writers' failed attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de sièc...
Author: Noble, Marianne Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have over-simplified its complex relationship to women's ...
Author: Scholl, Lesa Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In her study of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, Scholl shows how three Victorian women writers broadened their capacity for literary professionalism by participating in translat...
Author: Beshero-Bondar, Elisa Publisher: University of Delaware Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism argues that early nineteenth-century women poets contributed some of the most daring work in modernizing the epic genre. The book examines several lo...
