Category Archives: Women Writers

Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

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 relationship between men and women was subject to … Continue reading

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Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

Shedding new light on the representations of masculinity and same-sex desire in medieval literature, William Burgwinkle offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the Middle Ages. His studies of a wide range of texts reveal that medieval … Continue reading

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Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century: English Women Writers and the Public Sphere

Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration and the separation … Continue reading

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The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first … Continue reading

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Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999

This book is an invaluable new reference source and critical review of Arab women writers from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth.Arab women’s writing in the modern age began with A’isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and … Continue reading

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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from … Continue reading

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Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible (Symposium Series) (Symposium Series)

Women have been thoughtful readers and interpreters of scripture throughout the ages, yet the standard history of biblical interpretation includes few womens voices. To introduce readers to this untapped source for the history of biblical interpretation, this volume analyzes forgotten … Continue reading

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Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America

Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary … Continue reading

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Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing: From Faulkner to Morrison (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)

Much feminist writing of recent decades has addressed the difficulties of relating across racial differences. In Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing, Reames examines novels and autobiographies to discover how contemporary writers have imagined possibilities for relationships between African … Continue reading

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Critical Companion to Flannery O’connor

This welcome addition to the Critical Companion series is divided into four parts, each of which is quite detailed. The 17-page “Biography” includes information related to O’Connor’s upbringing and education and her determination to pursue a writing career in spite of her … Continue reading

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