Search Results - "writer"

Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

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The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer : Romance and Reform in Victorian England / by Galchinsky, Michael

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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850 / by Looser, Devoney, 1967-

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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

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Victorian Sacrifice : Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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Pageantry and Power : A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639 / by Hill, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…From low-obscure beginnings raysde to fame : critical and historical contexts of the Lord Mayor's Show -- Our devices for that solemne and Iouiall daye : the writers, the artificers and the livery companies -- A day of well compos'd variety of speach and shew : bringing the shows to life -- A briefe narration of each seuerall shew : the show from street to print -- To prune and dresse the tree of gouernment : political and contemporary contexts of the shows -- Appendices. …”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 / by Cameron, Brooke, 1976-

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Gothic incest : Gender, sexuality and transgression / by DiPlacidi, Jenny

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Challenging Communion : The Eucharist and Middle English Literature / by Garrison, Jennifer (Professor of English)

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Participatory reading in late-medieval England / by Blatt, Heather

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Reinventing Liberty / by Price, Fiona L.

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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

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The Bodies That Remain

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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

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Faithful Translators : Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England / by Goodrich, Jaime, 1978-

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South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 / by Maxey, Ruth

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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / by McNeil, Kenneth

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