Category: Women Authors

By M. Garrett

A number of thousand letters to and from Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning have survived, including different info at the composition and context of works from Barrett's 'lines on advantage' written on the age of 8 in 1814 to Browning's Asolando (1889). The Chronology seeks to steer readers via this mass of fabric in 3 major sections: adolescence, contrasting early backgrounds and careers, and growing to be curiosity in every one other's paintings to 1845; courtship, marriage, Italy, and paintings together with Aurora Leigh and males and females (1845-61); Browning's later lifetime of relentless socializing and prolific writing from his go back to London to his loss of life in Venice in 1889. The publication presents not just targeted courting yet a lot subject on such themes because the Brownings' wide studying in English, French and classical literature, their many friendships, and their occasionally conflicting political views.

By John Rignall

Superbly illustrated with 30 built-in black-and-white photographs, listed here are over 500 A-Z entries at the existence and paintings of George Eliot. Written by way of a world group of students, the better half deals a wealth of biographical and historic info that illuminates Eliot's paintings. There are entries on all her novels (including plot synopses), tales, and critical essays, plus insurance of poetry and translations, letters and journals, and notebooks and manuscripts. a protracted access surveys her existence, and shorter entries talk about her kin, associates, and friends, the areas she lived and the nations she visited, and the writers, thinkers, artists, and composers whose paintings she knew. the quantity additionally comprises large cross-referencing and recommendations for extra interpreting, a chronology, a bibliography, an alphabetical checklist of fictional characters, and maps of either fictional settings and the author's large travels. In sum, this can be the 1st reference paintings to do justice to the extreme variety and intensity of George Eliot's highbrow existence.

By Lispector, Clarice; Lispector, Clarice; Fitz, Earl E

This ebook argues that poststructuralism bargains vital and revealing insights into all elements of Lispector's writing.

By Jerzy Kosniski

In a masterpiece of affection and loss via one of many world's maximum writers, Fabian travels in his VanHome from one finish of the rustic to the opposite, looking, judging, and testing--himself such a lot of all.

By Susan M. Darraj

In a time while it sounds as if the space of figuring out among the West and the center East keeps to widen, Scheherazade's Legacy builds a bridge among the 2 cultures. gathered listed here are the voices of these who outline the style of Arab Anglophone writing—that literature that describes the cultural studies of these with Arab identities residing, and infrequently writing, within the West. Contributions from such writers as Naomi Shihab Nye, Diana Abu-Jaber, Suheir Hammad, Etal Adnan, Elmaz Abinader, and others, discover the complexities of writing in and for a tradition no longer fullyyt their very own. The essays the following, complemented by way of choices, regularly unique, of every author's paintings, gives you to be a cornerstone within the examine of writing by way of girls writers of Arab descent who locate themselves among cultures, worlds which are frequently at odds.With a foreword through Barbara Nimri Aziz, journalist, and founding father of RAWI (Radius of Arab-American Writers), this assortment is likely one of the first books to collect the voices of girls writers of Arab descent just about writing itself. members examine the problems, stumbling blocks, joys, mess ups and successes of writing from an Arab viewpoint yet mostly for American audiences. they give thought to facets of id, relatives, politics, reminiscence, and different an important cultural matters that impression them in my opinion and professionally as writers. In inventive and considerate prose, those very important ladies writers shed new mild on what it capability to be a author in a global now not absolutely your individual.

By K. Simpson

This publication brings a brand new size to the severe debate concerning the complicated courting of Woolf to and commodity culture through a spotlight at the present financial system at paintings in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the present and its value in her modernist aesthetics.

By Natalie Scenters-Zapico

By Marta Lamas (auth.)

By Robin Anne Reid

Works of technology fiction and fable more and more discover gender concerns, function girls as important characters, and are written through girls writers. This publication examines women's contributions to technology fiction and delusion throughout quite a number media and genres, equivalent to fiction, nonfiction, movie, tv, artwork, comics, photo novels, and song. the 1st quantity deals survey essays on significant subject matters, comparable to sexual identities, fandom, women's writing teams, and feminist spirituality; the second one presents alphabetically prepared entries on extra particular matters, resembling Hindu mythology, Toni Morrison, magical realism, and Margaret Atwood. Entries are written by way of specialist members and cite works for extra studying, and the set closes with a particular, basic bibliography.

Students and normal readers love technological know-how fiction and fable. And technology fiction and delusion works more and more discover gender concerns, function girls as critical characters, and are written through ladies writers. Older works display attitudes towards ladies in occasions prior, whereas newer works grapple with modern social concerns. This booklet is helping scholars use technological know-how fiction and delusion to appreciate the contributions of girls writers, the illustration of girls within the media, and the stories of ladies in society.

By L. Palazzo

This quantity disputes the belief that Rossetti was once a follower of Keble and Pusey, and indicates how her dissatisfaction with the male-dominated name to celibacy led her to reject their notions of worldliness, and to shape a more in-depth bond with the actual global and the physique.