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The English Language Poetry of South Asians
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 55.00In this study, ten independent critical essays and a coda explore the English-language poetry of South Asians in terms of time, place, themes and poetic methodologies. The transnational perspective taken establishes connections between colonial and postcolonial South Asian poetry in English as well as the poetry of the old and new diaspora and the... more...
Her Own Life
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 41.95During a period when writing was often the only form of self-expression for women, Her Own Life contains extracts from the autobiographical texts of twelve seventeenth-century women addressing a wide range of issues central to their lives. more...
Women?s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 80.00An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. more...
Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 104.95Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century nonfiction and fiction, Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of gender, sex and the body. Looking at discursive patterns and texts by authors like Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and Eliza Potter that feature successful... more...
Things Can Only Get Bitter
Aurum Press 2012; US$ 3.49?It is a great night. It is the end of socialism.? Margaret Thatcher, 10 April 1992 Twenty years on from 1992and the effects are still being felt. Some of these are so global in their scale that they can not be ignored. It was, for example, the year when the Maastricht Treaty was signed, setting in train the process of creating a single European currency,... more...
Romanticism
Wiley 2012; US$ 51.95This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , and Urizen ; Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798); Wordsworth's Two-Part Prelude ;... more...
Moult a sans et vallour
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 112.00William W. Kibler is one of the most productive and versatile medievalists of his generation. Some scholars and students think of him primarily as a specialist in the medieval epic, whereas others consider him to be an Arthurian scholar. He is of course both, but he is also much more: a consummate philologist and editor of texts and also a prolific... more...
Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings. more...
Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 95.00A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance. more...
Medieval Anchoritisms
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 99.00An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages. more...









