In this work of feminist literary criticism the authors explore the works of many major 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of a confining patriarchal society and trace a distinctive female literary tradition. schovat popis
Sandra M. Gilbert Livres
27 décembre 1936
Sandra M. Gilbert est une auteure acclamée de nombreux volumes de critique et de poésie, ainsi que d'un mémoire. Elle est reconnue pour ses contributions importantes à la recherche littéraire, y compris sa co-direction d'une anthologie fondamentale de la littérature féminine. Son travail aborde souvent les complexités de l'expression littéraire et les expériences des femmes écrivains.
Still Mad
- 464pages
- 17 heures de lecture
A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it
Orlando
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
This biography is Woolf's most light-hearted novel and appears here with the original illustrations. Cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando begins life as a young noble in the 16th century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s.
Theory and History of Literature - 24: The Newly Born Woman
- 168pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Published in France as Le jeune née in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément put forward the concept of écriture feminine, exploring the ways women’s sexuality and unconscious shape their imagination, their language, and their writing. Through their readings of historical, literary, and psychoanalytic accounts, Cixous and Clément explore what is hidden and repressed in culture, revealing the unconscious of history.