Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)
by Jocelyn Harris
In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues that Jane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher, and a keen political observer. In Mansfield Park, she appears to base Fanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticize the royal heir as unfit to rule, and expose Susan Burney's cruel husband through Mr. Price. In Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the young Prince of Wales as the vulgar John Thorpe; in Persuasion, she attacks both the regent's failure to retrench, and his dangerous...
After centuries of repression of the female voice in literature, the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods in Japanese history saw important changes in both the way women wrote and the way they were read. However, even the most accepted female writers of these two eras were judged by criteria different from those applied to men, and only the most conservative were praised by the (male) critics. This study of the women who wrote in the modern era examines both famous and now-obscure wr...
Explores language, music, and dance as interpreted though the author's works, combining memoir and essay to explore her deconstruction of English in her celebrated play "For colored girls" and her views on life as a woman and a black individual.
I understand that in my own life, I represented a whole period of American history. As Laura Ingalls Wilder realized they would, her widely loved stories of her prairie childhood have become much more than a nostalgic blend of myth, memories, and autobiography. Historically, John Miller reveals, they have much to tell us about the realities of day-to-day living and attitudes in the nineteenth century. History and literature are closely intertwined, Miller contends, and in this book he illustra...
Die Autorin verfolgt mit ihrem Werk die Fragestellung, wie sich die Konstruktion der Femme fatale in einem Zeitraum von 30 Jahren, zwischen Fin de siecle und Weimarer Republik, geandert hat. Jenseits einseitiger motivgeschichtlicher, textimmanenter, psychoanalytischer und auch aktueller gendertheoretischer Vorgehensweisen wahlt sie einen diskursiven Zugang, in dem sie die Femme fatale als Kunst- und Alltagsmythos begreift, den sie in das Spannungsfeld kultursoziologischer, politischer und litera...
Die Arbeit untersucht die fruhen Theaterstucke von Veza Canetti und Marieluise Fleisser im Grenzgebiet von literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Intertextualitatstheorie, Autorschafts- und Geschlechterforschung. Sichtbar werden durch detaillierte Analysen die Positionierungen der Stucke Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt und Pioniere in Ingolstadt von Fleisser sowie Der Tiger und Der Oger von Canetti im Verhaltnis zu Vorlauferwerken - ein Dialog der Texte, der neue Interpretationsraume eroeffnet. Im Zent...
Harnessing new enthusiasm for Nan Shepherd's writing, this book asks how literature might help us to reimagine humanity's place on earth in the midst of our ecological crisis. The first book to examine Shepherd's prose and fiction through an ecocritical lens, The Living World reveals forgotten details about the scientific, political and philosophical climate of early twentieth century Scotland, and offers new understandings of Shepherd's distinctive environmental thought. With a focus on The Liv...
Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women's Writing
This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women's writing offers a range of approaches to a growing field. As a whole, the volume introduces readers to a number of writers, such as Mirabai and Liu Rushi, who are virtually invisible in Anglophone scholarship, and to writers who remain little known, such as Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Hatton, and Jane Sharpe. The volume also represents critical strategies designed to open up the emergent canon of early modern women's writing to...
A comprehensive analysis of all of Lee Smith's fiction up through her 2006 novel, On Agate Hill, including her short stories, this study argues that Smith's fiction examines the psychological challenges of living in a society that is, on some level, "rootless." Using post-structuralist theory and narratology, Bennett elucidates Smith's unique narrative explorations of identity. She argues that Smith has made an important contribution to Southern literature, in her consistent focus on the Souther...
The Woman Reader
by Lecturer and British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of French Belinda Jack
How have women read differently from men through the ages? In all manner of ways, this book asserts. This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages. Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women...
The letters in this volume, virtually all of them personal letters to close friends and relatives, cover nearly fifty years of Emily Tennyson's life, from shortly before her marriage right up to the week of her death. These letters tell the reader much about the Tennysons' acquaintances and their guests at Farringford and Aldworth, many of them among the literary and political luminaries of the day. But more importantly they comment on Tennyson himself and on daily life in the Tennyson household...
Core archetypes of women in ancient history are traced in this book, like Eve, Pandora, Hecate, Medea, Medusa and Alcestis. It shows how their powerful stories became examples that composers of opera, novelists, and screenwriters have rewitten.
Women Writers of Latin America (Texas Pan American)
What does it take for a woman to succeed as a writer? In these revealing interviews, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena Garcia Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors that have shaped their writing careers."
Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies is a study of the works of two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudery and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. Analyzing their use of the novel, the chronicle, and the fairy tale, Duggan examines how Scudery and d'Aulnoy responded to and participated in the changes of their society, but from different generational and ideological positions. As both Scudery and d'Aulnoy wrote from within the context of the salon, this study also takes in...
"At last, here is a book written by an Italian about the homeopathic but essential role that Italian artists, and among them, important writers, have played to introduce the digital transformation to Italians. Long before government or business, and least of all educators, took notice, artists, as was their wont for centuries, were the first to reveal the potential of the new technologies. Emanuela Patti not only pays them a long overdue tribute, but along the way revisits with care and engaging...
Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace
Women's letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and relegated to basements, attics, closets, and, increasingly, cyberspace rather than public institutions. This collection showcases the range of critical debates that animate thinking about women's archives in Canada. The essays in Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace consider a series of central qu...
The Daughter's Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Moure as elegiac daughteronomies - literary artifacts of mourning that grow from the poets' investigation into the function and limitations of ele...