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Breaking the Rule of Cool : Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers
Nancy M. Grace
Paperback - $48.95
Interviews and essays that spotlight nine women Beat writers who broke with social and literary norms and with the male rule of Cool. The Beat movement nurtured many female dissidents and artists who contributed to Beat culture and connected the Beat ...
Twentieth-Century Women's Writing in Wales : Land, Gender, Belonging
Katie Gramich
Paperback - $75.95
A comprehensive collection that includes over seventy Welsh-language and English-language writers, "Twentieth-Century Women's Writing in Wales" traces the history of Welsh women's writing over the past century. Covering forms as diverse as the novel, ...
Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain
Catharine Gray
Hardcover - $148.95
This book reveals that seventeenth-century women' s very marginality to traditional institutions of church and state made them catalysts for imagining an expanded public culture beyond these institutions. Women authors such as the conduct writer Doro ...
Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place
Jan Nordby Gretlund
Paperback - $38.95
In this study of the particular place from which Eudora Welty's writing arises, Fulbright Scholar Jan Nordby Gretlund contends that her writing represents the South's collective experience from the Depression to the present. Gretlund demonstrates tha ...
Flannery Oconnors Radical Reality
Jan Nordby Gretlund
Paperback - $44.95
A perennially intriguing writer placed in the context of her troubled times and our own
Myth, Symbol and Meaning in Mary Poppins : The Governess as Provocateur
Giorgia Grilli
Hardcover - $197.95
The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the ...
Things of the Spirit : Women Writers Constructing Spirituality
Kristina K. Groover
Paperback - $51.95
With the aid of her Economics of Aging class, Teresa Ghilarducci has compiled this comprehensive sourcebook as a guide through the maze of Social Security and the economics of growing old in America. What You Need to Know About the Economics of Growi ...
Aemilia Lanyer : Gender, Genre, and the Canon
Marshall Grossman
Hardcover - $75.95
Aemilia Lanyer was a middle-class Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain. But she is remembered today as the first Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611).
Her output ...
Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
Helen Hackett
Paperback - $86.95
This book traces the progress of Renaissance romance from a genre addressed to women as readers to a genre written by women. Exploring this crucial transitional period, Helen Hackett examines the work of a diverse range of writers from Lyly, Rich and ...