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The Oxford Guide to British Women Writersby Joanne Shattock
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 40.00This introduction to British women's writing, from the earliest times to the present day, ranges across novelists, poets, playwrights, historians, scientists and translators. It covers, in an A-Z sequence, the lives and works of 400 writers in detail. more...
Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexualityby Chris White
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95Includes prose, poetry, fiction, history and polemic from 1810 to 1914. more...
Her Own Lifeby Elspeth Graham; Hilary Hind; Elaine Hobby; Helen Wilcox
Routledge 1989; US$ 39.95This collection contains substantial extracts from the work of twelve seventeenth-century women from different walks of life, writing in a variety of forms covering an enormous range of topics including violence, travel, children and God. more...
Postcolonial Exoticby Graham Huggan
Routledge 2001; US$ 34.95Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis. more...
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760by Clare Brant; Diane Purkiss
Routledge 1992; US$ 43.95The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended. more...
Sordid Imagesby Steve Clark
Routledge 1994; US$ 150.00Examining a wide range of English poetry by men for evidence of the articulation of heterosexual masculine desire, Sordid Images will inspire its readers to look again at some of the cornerstone works of English literature. more...
Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialoguesby Jyotsna Singh
Routledge 1996; US$ 37.95Using Shakespeare as a case in point, this book shows how the study of English Literature was implicated in the ideology of the empires in colonies such as India. The author argues that these studies promote western culture. more...
Writing Englishness: An Introductory Sourcebookby Judy Giles; Tim Middleton
Routledge 1995; US$ 44.95What did it mean in the first half of this century to say `I am English'? This is a unique collection of extracts from 1900-1950, all of which raise this question. Draws on a range of poems, fiction, letters, diaries and journalism. more...
Secret Sexualitiesby Ian McCormick
Routledge 1997; US$ 41.95Expansive in its historical range, vast sources and scholarly research, it contains rare, unpublished, primary material and refuses to discriminate between issues of sex, sexuality and gender. more...
Classical Mythology in English Literatureby Geoffrey Miles
Routledge 1999; US$ 42.95Brings together a range of English versions of three classical myths, allowing students to explore the ways in which they have been reinterpreted and reinvented by writers throughout history. more...