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

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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

Table of Contents: “…Delany and Carl Freedman -- Black science faction: an interview with Kevin Willmott, director and writer of CSA, the confederate states of America / Kevin Willmott and Marleen S. …”
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Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers / by Hagood, Taylor, 1975-

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

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Hip Sublime : Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition /

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The Sage in Harlem : H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s / by Scruggs, Charles

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Making the "America of Art" : Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers / by Sofer, Naomi Z.

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Table of Contents: “…Spiritual adventuring by other contemporary women writers --…”
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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / by Carroll, Rachel

Subjects: “…Literary studies : fiction, novelists and prose writers. bicssc 150821…”
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The Worlds of Langston Hughes : Modernism and Translation in the Americas / by Kutzinski, Vera M., 1956-

Subjects: “…Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers. bicssc 150821…”
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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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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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A History of Icelandic Literature / by Stefán Einarsson, 1897-1972

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Eddic Poetry -- Skaldic Poetry -- Sacred Poetry -- Secular Poetry of the Later Middle Ages -- Literature of the Clergy -- The Earliest Historiographers -- The Kings' Sagas -- The Sagas -- The Family Sagas -- Sturlunga Saga -- Fornalder Sogur -- Romances of Chivalry and Lygi Sogur -- The Reformation -- The Icelandic Renaissance -- Secular Poetry, 1550-1750 -- Enlightenment (Neo-Classicism), 1750-1830 -- National Romanticism, 1830-1874 -- Realism to Neo-Romanticism, 1874-1918 -- Tradition and Revolt Between the World Wars, 1918-1940 -- After World War II, 1940-1956 -- American-Icelandic Writers.…”
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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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Premises and Problems : Essays on World Literature and Cinema /

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Decadent Genealogies : The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio / by Spackman, Barbara, 1952-

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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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Mad Men, Mad World : Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s /

Table of Contents: “…A feminist reading of reproductive history in Mad Men / Leslie J. Reagan -- The writer as producer; or, The hip figure after HBO / Michael Szalay -- The shock of the banal : Mad Men's progressive realism / Caroline Levine -- Mod men / Jim Hansen -- Swing skirts and swinging singles : Mad men, fashion, and cultural memory / Mabel Rosenheck -- Against depth : looking at surface through the Kodak carousel / Irene V. …”
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Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature : Literary and Cultural Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Martín Rodríguez -- Mestizaje in Afro-Iberian writers Najat El Hachmi and Said El Kadaoui -- Moussaoui through the borderland theories of U.S. third world feminisms / Carmen Sanjuán-Pastor -- Toward a transnational Nos/otr@s scholarship in Chican@ and Latin@ studies / Ricardo F. …”
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