Greatness Engendered

Alison Booth

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppre... Lees meer

Beyond Consolation

Melissa F Zeiger

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they... Lees meer

Outside the Pale

Elsie B Michie

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers ... Lees meer

Narrative Transvestism

Madeleine Kahn

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Many of the earliest canonical novels--including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa --were written by men who assum... Lees meer

The Unspeakable Mother

Deborah Kelly Kloepfer

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Moving back and forth between experience and language, The Unspeakable Mother operates out of the intersection of two perspectives: women's immersion ... Lees meer

Penelope Voyages

Karen R Lawrence

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead ... Lees meer

Going Public

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality government s... Lees meer

Beyond Consolation

Melissa F Zeiger

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they... Lees meer

Reading Gertrude Stein

Lisa Ruddick

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• "Ruddick's interpretative study of Gertrude Stein breaks new ground in both Stein studies and poststructural theory, remaining accessible while reject... Lees meer

Cartesian Women

Erica Harth

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• The little-known writings that Erica Harth examines here reveal a remarkable chapter in the history of Western thought. Drawing upon current theoretic... Lees meer

Autobiographical Voices

Françoise Lionnet

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works b... Lees meer

Postcolonial Representations

Françoise Lionnet

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Passionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, asserts Françoise Lionnet. Discussing a nu... Lees meer

Articulate Silences

King-Kok Cheung

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: His... Lees meer

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Laurie A Finke

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contempor... Lees meer

Woman and Modernity

Carolyn Biddy a Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of Salomé have in large part neglected to offer--a sustained investigation of the literariness of S... Lees meer

Penelope Voyages

Karen R Lawrence

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead ... Lees meer

Tainted Souls and Painted Faces

Amanda Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction--the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array ... Lees meer

From the Margins of Empire

Louise Yelin

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Na... Lees meer

Feminist Conversations

Christina Zwarg

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• In a new account of the relationship between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Zwarg recreates a feminist conversation that has gone ... Lees meer

Woman and Modernity

Carolyn Biddy a Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of Salomé have in large part neglected to offer--a sustained investigation of the literariness of S... Lees meer

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Laurie A Finke

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contempor... Lees meer

Women and Romance

Laurie Langbauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determ... Lees meer

Public Life in Renaissance Florence

Richard C Trexler

• Hardcover | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• Covering the history of Renaissance Florence from the fourteenth century to the beginnings of the Medici duchy, Richard C. Trexler traces collective r... Lees meer

Kassandra and the Censors

Karen Van Dyck

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Women Writing
• In this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She trac... Lees meer