The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Title | The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English PDF eBook |
Author | Lorna Sage |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 1999-09-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521668132 |
An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Ingrassia |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 brings together the most recent scholarship by leading scholars in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of women's writing in eighteenth-century Britain. The chapters discuss both canonical and lesser-known women writers in multiple genres, including poetry, drama, fiction and travel writing.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Dinshaw |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2003-05-22 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780521796385 |
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period PDF eBook |
Author | Devoney Looser |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2015-03-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107016681 |
A wide-ranging and accessible account of the pioneering professional women writers who flourished during the Romantic period.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Linda H. Peterson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2015-10-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316390349 |
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing brings together chapters by leading scholars to provide innovative and comprehensive coverage of Victorian women writers' careers and literary achievements. While incorporating the scholarly insights of modern feminist criticism, it also reflects new approaches to women authors that have emerged with the rise of book history; periodical studies; performance studies; postcolonial studies; and scholarship on authorship, readership, and publishing. It traces the Victorian woman writer's career - from making her debut to working with publishers and editors to achieving literary fame - and challenges previous thinking about genres in which women contributed with success. Chapters on poetry, including a discussion of poetry in colonial and imperial contexts, reveal women's engagements with each other and male writers. Discussions on drama, life writing, reviewing, history, travel writing, and children's literature uncover the remarkable achievement of women in fields relatively unknown.
The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | N. H. Keeble |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2001-09-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521645225 |
A Companion to the writing produced by the English Revolution, with supporting chronology and guide to further reading.
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Hughes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2004-11-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139826948 |
Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.