Search Results - "Woman"

A woman speaks : The lectures, seminars, and interview of Anais Nin / by Hinz Evelyn J.

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

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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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Amy Foster by Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924

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Jane Eyre by Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855

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Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist by Lewis, Linda M., 1942-

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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 rise and fall of the femme fatale in British literature, 1790-1910 by Braun, Heather, 1975-

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The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / by Gilbert, Sandra M.

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Men in black by Harvey, J. R. (John Robert)

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Our coquettes capacious desire in the eighteenth century / by Braunschneider, Theresa, 1971-

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Echoes of Desire : English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses / by Dubrow, Heather, 1945-

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Womanhood in Anglophone literary culture nineteenth and twentieth century perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Womb fiction: late twentieth century challenges to the woman as womb paradigm /…”
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In science's shadow literary constructions of late Victorian women / by Murphy, Patricia, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the gendered context of Victorian science -- Fated marginalization : women and science in the poetry of Constance Naden -- A problematic boundary : masculinizing science in Thomas Hardy's Two on a tower -- Dangerous behavior : a woman's menacing avocation in Wilkie Collins's Heart and science -- "Escaping" gender : the neutral voice in Marianne North's Recollections of a happy life -- Evolutionary mediation : the female physician in Charles Reade's A woman-hater.…”
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The female and the species the animal in Irish women's writing / by O'Connor, Maureen, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…"Vile bodies" -- Frances Power Cobbe, political animal -- The evolutionary new woman -- Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds in the fiction of Somerville and Ross -- Contemporary representations of sacrificial logic.…”
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The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / by Hite, Molly, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Writing in the margins: Jean Rhys -- The future in a different shape: broken form and possibility in The golden notebook -- Romance, marginality, matrilineage: The color purple -- Other side, other woman: Lady oracle.…”
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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms / by Lowe, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Discourse and heterogeneity : situating orientalism -- Travel narratives and orientalism : Montagu and Montesquieu -- Orient as woman, orientalism as sentimentalism: Flaubert -- Orientalism as literary criticism : the reception of E.M. …”
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