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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" …”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel /
Published 1990Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation /
Published 2005Table 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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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" …”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel /
Published 1990Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation /
Published 2005Table 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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Medieval Women and Their Objects /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Collette / Arlyn Diamond -- Introduction: Medieval Women and Their Objects / Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury -- Part 1. …”
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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate /
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Medieval Women and Their Objects /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Collette / Arlyn Diamond -- Introduction: Medieval Women and Their Objects / Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury -- Part 1. …”
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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate /
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Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Memory and Estrangement /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; I Concepts; 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland; 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet; 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry; II Achievements; 4 Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory; 5 Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities; 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux; 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality; Conclusion: Memories of the Future ; Bibliography…”
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Women Poets and the American Sublime /
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Women Poets and the American Sublime /
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Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Memory and Estrangement /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; I Concepts; 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland; 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet; 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry; II Achievements; 4 Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory; 5 Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities; 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux; 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality; Conclusion: Memories of the Future ; Bibliography…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing /
Published 2007Subjects: “…Women travelers in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01178648 147565…”
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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice /
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