Description |
xii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
1. Rethinking Women's Literary History -- 2. Emily Dickinson and the Wicked Sisters. The Magic Circle. "Satan, or Sue" Sisterhood and Difference. Placing Dickinson in History -- 3. Dickinson, Women Writers, and the Marketplace. Literary Sisterhood: The Bronte Sisters. "Tomes of Solid Witchcraft": Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Superior Women: George Eliot. Going to Market: Helen Hunt Jackson -- 4. Differences That Kill: Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore. Gender and Modernism. The Dynamics of Influence. "Can't They See How Different It Is?" Witchcraft. "Driving to the Interior" "You Are an Elizabeth" -- 5. Adrienne Rich, Emily Dickinson, and the Limits of Sisterhood. Breaking the Mold. Feminism and Poetry. Lesbian Feminist Politics and Poetics. Dickinson as Other. "What Chou Mean WE, White Girl?" -- 6. Race, Black Women Writing, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Making Herself a Tradition. Black Blueswomen. Poetry and Black Motherhood. Words as Weapons. Black Power. "There Will Be Differences" |
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"Who Said It Was Simple" |
Analysis |
English poetry By Women |
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United States |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-259) and index |
SUBJECT |
Women & literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42026678
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Subject |
American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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English poetry -- Women authors -- Influence.
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Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Feminism and literature.
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Feminist poetry -- History and criticism.
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Feminist poetry, American -- History and criticism.
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Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature.
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LC no. |
91040918 |
ISBN |
0195072111 (cl : acid-free paper) |
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019507212X (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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