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Writing Women in Modern China : An Anthology of Literature by Chinese Women from the Early Twentieth Century
Amy D. Dooling
Paperback - $62.95
The past few years have seen a burgeoning effort to rethink questions of women, writing, and gender in modern China. Here 22 works of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry, each prefaced by the author's photograph and a short biographical ...
Writing Performances : The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers
Crystal Downing
Hardcover - $136.95
After Dorothy L. Sayers became famous for her fictional sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, she began investigating the mysteries of Anglo-Catholic Christianity, writing plays for both stage and radio. However, because her modernist contemporaries disdained b ...
Myths of Power : A Marxist Study of the Brontes
Terry Eagleton
Paperback - $51.95
This book sets out to interpret the fiction of the Bronte sisters in light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced. Its aim is not merely to relate literary facts, but by a close critical examination of the novels, ...
No Rooms of Their Own : Women Writers of Early California, 1849-1869
Ida Rae Egli
Paperback - $26.95
Now in its second edition with a new introduction by the editor, this important collection includes writings by Dame Shirley, Josephine Clifford McCrakin, Ina Coolbrith, Ada Clare, and others.
Reinventing the Peabody Sisters
Monika M. Elbert
Hardcover - $80.95
Whether in the public realm as political activists, artists, teachers, biographers, editors, and writers or in the more traditional role of domestic, nurturing women, Elizabeth Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne subverted rigid ...
Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory : Representing National Time
Jane Elliott
Hardcover - $148.95
Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues
Sarah Baxter Emsley
Hardcover - $159.95
This book examines the ways in which Jane Austen's novels offer complex imaginative representations of both the tensions among, and the possibilities for, the practice of both the classical and the theological virtues.
Beyond the Border : A New Age in Latin American Women's Fiction
Nora Erro-Peralta
Paperback - $33.95
This collection of 15 vibrant short stories showcases a rich and important body of fiction by Latin American women, including acclaimed writers such as Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela as well as dynamic new voices. Ranging across boundaries of ge ...
Virginia Woolf : Feminism and the Reader
Anne Fernald
Hardcover - $147.95
From her girlhood in her father’ s library to the end of her life, Virginia Woolf read widely and with passion. "Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader" shows how Virginia Woolf’ s reading affected her feminism and how her feminism affec ...