18 books like Women's Life Writing And Imagined Communities

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White woman speaks with forked tongue Nicole Ward Jouve · 1991 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The appraisals here of a broad range of women's writing suggests a different direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does intellectual debate and textual analysis with fictional example and autobiographical detail. In addressing the need for the critic to say "I" and to own judgements and statements instead of attributing these to an apparently impersonal third person, the author points… Shares: Letterkunde, Women and literature, Women authors, History and criticism

Writing a woman's life Carolyn G. Heilbrun · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made it impossible for them to follow the traditional "male" script for a woman's life. Refreshing and insightful, this is an homage to brave women past and present, and an invitation to all women to write… Shares: Women and literature, Women authors, Women, History and criticism

From Puritanism to postmodernism Richard Ruland · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 470p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a… Shares: Letterkunde, History and criticism

New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman Giovanna Summerfield · 2010 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Women authors, History and criticism

Where No Man Has Gone Before Lucie Armitt · 1991 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 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… Shares: Women and literature, Women authors, History and criticism

Partial visions Angelika Bammer · 1991 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate What would a good world for women look like? How would we get there from where we are and how would we have to change ourselves in the process? This book examines a critical moment in recent American and western European history when the utopian dimension of political movements was particularly generative and feminism was at their core. The imaginative literature that emerged out of American,… Shares: Women and literature, Women authors, History and criticism

Room of Ones Own Three Guineas Virginia Woolf · 1984 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Three Guineas was published almost a decade later and breaks new ground in its discussion of… Shares: Women and literature, Women authors, Women

Unbecoming women Susan Fraiman · 1993 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Is there a "female Bildungsroman"? Can the story of Elizabeth Bennet's development be yoked to a genre conceived in terms of Wilhelm Meister and David Copperfield? Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman, and turns to novels of development and conduct books by women for a new poetics of growing up." "In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen,… Shares: Women and literature, Women authors, History and criticism

Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing Julie A. Eckerle · 2013 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Juxtaposing life writing and romance, this study offers the first book-length exploration of the dynamic and complex relationship between the two genres. Through close analysis of a wide variety of life writings by early modern Englishwomen, Eckerle shows how deeply influenced these women were by the controversial romance genre. Her analysis adds a layer of significant nuance to our understanding… Shares: Women and literature, Women authors, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Victorian women's fiction Shirley Foster · 1985 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemporary assumptions about their own sex. Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual develops this area of exploration, showing how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the… Shares: Women and literature, Women authors, History and criticism

Reading the Renaissance Jonathan Hart · 1996 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Approaching the Renaissance from many perspectives-historicism, genre studies, close reading, anthropology, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism and postmodernism-these original essays explore the boundaries between genre and gender, languages and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance and the Middle Ages, the early modern and the post-modern, world and theater. They… Shares: Letterkunde, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

A good man is hard to find Flannery O'Connor · 1955 · ★ 3.8 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories. Shares: Women and literature, Women authors

Letters to Alice On First Reading Jane A Fay Weldon · 1984 · ★ 3.2 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Weldon uses letters to an imaginary niece, "Alice," to pay tribute to Austen, while exploring the craft of fiction from her own standpoint. Shares: Women and literature, Women, History and criticism

Arthurian literature by women Alan Lupack · 1999 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Arthurian Literature by Women: An Anthology is a collection of Arthurian poems, stories, and plays by women, from Marie de France to the present, all of which are either significant examples of Arthurian literature or innovative interpretations of Arthurian tradition. Rather than reproducing brief selections from contemporary novels that are readil Shares: Women and literature, Women authors

In her own words Wendy Slatkin · 2010 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In Her Own Words: A Primary Source Book of Autobiographical Texts by Women Artists in the 19th and 20th Centuries gives voice to sixteen influential women artists, providing students with a highly personal lens through which they can analyze and interpret each artist's visual works. The material progresses chronologically to better situate the artistic and literary works of the featured women… Shares: Women authors, Women, Biography & Memoir

Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter Erich Auerbach · 1958 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares: Letterkunde, History and criticism

Autobiography and Questions of Gender Shirley Neuman · 2015 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1991. Addressing the ways in which the ideology of gender and its social construction determine autobiographical self-representations, the essays here consider several women’s works in the light of the social and historical conditions which enabled their production. Some examine diaries as a feminine form and ask about the ways in which thematic content such as childbirth… Shares: Women authors, Biography & Memoir

The foremother figure in early black women's literature Jacqueline K. Bryant · 1999 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in nineteenth century American literature. The book argues that older black woman portrayed in early black women’s works differs significantly from the older black women portrayed in early white women’s works. The foremother figure, then emerging in early black… Shares: Women and literature, History and criticism

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