| Description |
1 online resource |
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Gale critical companion collection |
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Gale critical companion collection.
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| Contents |
volume 1. Antiquity-18th century, topics and authors Chronology of Key Events -- Women and Women's Writings from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages -- Women in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries: An Overview -- Women's Literature in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries -- Christine de Pizan -- Juana Inés de La Cruz, Sor -- Kempe, Margery -- Montagu, Mary Wortley -- Sappho -- Wheatley, Phillis -- Wollstonecraft, Mary |
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volume 2. 19th century, topics and authors (A-B) -- Women in the 19th Century: An Overview -- Women's Literature in the 19th Century -- United States Suffrage Movement in the 19th Century -- Alcott, Louisa May -- Austen, Jane -- Brontë, Charlotte -- Brontë, Emily -- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett -- Burney, Fanny |
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volume 3. 19th century, topics and authors (C-Z) -- Chopin, Kate -- Dickinson, Emily -- Edgeworth, Maria -- Eliot, George -- Fuller, Margaret -- Holley, Marietta -- Jacobs, Harriet -- Jewett, Sarah Orne -- Rossetti, Christina -- Sand, George -- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria -- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft -- Staël, Germaine de -- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady -- Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
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volume 4. 20th century, topics -- Women in the Early to Mid-20th Century (1900-1960): An Overview -- Suffrage in the 20th Century -- Women's Literature from 1900 to 1960 -- The Feminist Movement in the 20th Century -- Women's Literature from 1960 to the Present |
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volume 5. 20th century, authors (A-G) -- Akhmatova, Anna -- Allende, Isabel -- Angelou, Maya -- Atwood, Margaret -- Beauvoir, Simone de -- Brooks, Gwendolyn -- Cather, Willa -- Cisneros, Sandra -- Cixous, Hélène -- H.D. -- Duras, Marguerite -- Dworkin, Andrea -- Emecheta, Buchi -- Erdrich, Louise -- French, Marilyn -- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins |
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volume 6. 20th century, authors (H-Z) -- Hansberry, Lorraine -- Head, Bessie -- Hellman, Lillian -- Hurston, Zora Neale -- Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Lessing, Doris -- Millay, Edna St. Vincent -- Moore, Marianne -- Morrison, Toni -- Oates, Joyce Carol -- Plath, Sylvia -- Rich, Adrienne -- Sexton, Anne -- Stein, Gertrude -- Tan, Amy -- Walker, Alice -- Wharton, Edith -- Woolf, Virginia |
| Summary |
This six-volume set explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times. Topics covered include misogyny and women's social roles in ancient civilizations, 16th-century women's devotional literature, 17th- and 18th-century women's captivity narratives, the women's suffrage movement in 19th-century America, women writers of the "Lost Generation," lesbian literature, and much more |
| Notes |
Published as part of the Gale virtual reference library |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women authors -- Biography.
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Women -- History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature -- Women authors.
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Women authors.
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Women.
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| Genre/Form |
Computer network resources
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bomarito, Jessica, 1975-
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Hunter, Jeffrey W., 1966-
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| ISBN |
1414405200 |
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9781414405209 |
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