| Description |
xviii, 997 pages, A21 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Women writers : on writing. -- Christine De Pizan -- Jane Anger -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- Aphra Behn -- Mary Astell -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Fanny Burney -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Maria Edgeworth -- Germaine Necker de Staël -- Stéphanie-Félicité Ducrest, Comtesse de Genlis -- Jane Austen -- Mary Shelley -- Charlotte Brontë -- George Eliot -- Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) -- Emily Dickinson -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Harriet Martineau -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- Anna Julia Cooper -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) -- Virginia Woolf -- Rebecca West -- Jessie Redmond Fauset -- Anaïs Nin -- Dorothy Richardson -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Marianne Moore -- Sylvia Plath -- Tillie Olsen -- Cynthia Ozick -- Adrienne Rich -- Joanna Russ -- Alice Walker -- Margaret Atwood -- Audre Lorde -- Adrienne Rich -- June Jordan -- Gloria Anzaldúa -- Ursula Le Guin -- Toni Morrison -- Eavan Boland -- Lyn Hejinian -- pt. 2. Theory : on gender and culture. -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Mary Ellmann -- Kate Millett -- Sherry B. Ortner -- Nancy Chodorow -- Juliet Mitchell -- Gayle Rubin -- Hélenè Cixous -- Joan Kelly-Gadol -- Luce Irigaray -- Judith Fetterley -- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- Julia Kristeva -- Annette Kolodny -- Margaret Homans -- Nina Baym -- Jane P. Tompkins -- Elaine Showalter -- Monique Wittig -- Bonnie Zimmerman -- Carol Gilligan -- Lillian Robinson -- Donna Haraway -- Barbara Johnson -- Paula Gunn Allen -- Barbara Christian -- Hortense Spillers -- Carolyn Heilbrun -- Carolyn Dinshaw -- Diana Fuss -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Bell Hooks -- Judith Butler -- Elizabeth Abel -- Isobel Armstrong -- Susan Bordo -- Terry Castle -- Carolyn Dever -- Paula M.L. Moya -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- pt. 3. Practice : representative readings and analyses. -- On medieval women -- On Aphra Behn and Oroonoko -- On Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre -- On Emily Dickinson -- On the Harlem Renaissance -- On Sylvia Plath |
| Summary |
A collection of women's meditations on literary creativity, beginning with medieval and early modern women of letters and concluding with contemporary scholars, with emphasis on writings by English-language poets and novelists, whose thinking is represented in a range of genres, including letters, tracts, prefaces, introductions, essays, and lectures, etc |
| Notes |
A collection of women's meditations on literary creativity, beginning with medieval and early modern women of letters and concluding with contemporary scholars, with emphasis on writings by English-language poets and novelists, whose thinking is represented in a range of genres, including letters, tracts, prefaces, introductions, essays, and lectures, etc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors.
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English literature -- Women authors.
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Feminism and literature -- History.
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Feminism -- Literary collections.
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Feminist literary criticism -- Literary collections.
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Feminist literary criticism -- History.
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Literature -- Women authors.
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Women and literature -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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| Author |
Gilbert, Sandra M., editor
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Gubar, Susan, 1944- editor
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| LC no. |
2007020372 |
| ISBN |
0393927903 |
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9780393927900 |
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