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Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2012; US$ 99.00This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owenson's seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four 'national tales'. Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social problems in Ireland, following the passing of the Act of Union in 1800. more...
The Real Jane Austen
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 23.99In The Real Jane Austen , acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne provides the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of a beloved but complex novelist. Just as letters and tokens in Jane Austen?s novels often signal key turning points in the narrative, Byrne explores the small things ? a scrap of paper, a gold chain, an ivory miniature ? that... more...
Feminismo E innovation en la narrativa gallega de autoria femenina Xohana Torres, Marie Xosé Queizán, Carmen Blanco Y Teresa Moure
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 179.95Centering on authors whose work represents the Galician region of northwestern Spain, this book showcases women writers who deal with feminist themes. The narrative structure is also analyzed and the main focus is to show how women are represented in the novels of several female authors. more...
Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 64.99This book proffers an original theory of postcolonial feminist writings, and bears witness to the radical possibility of the work of some prominent and other less-known postcolonial women writers from Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Americas. more...
Reading Like a Girl
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 137.50By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen ( Someone Like You ), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson ( Speak ), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting... more...
The Female I in Modern Greek Prose Fiction 1924-1962
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 169.95In this monograph, Dr. Comatsos analyzes the utilization of female narrators in Greek fiction from 1924-1962 and connects the appearance of women in the public sphere in Greece. The author examines female narrators in nine novels written by both male and female authors using narratology, feminism, and Bakhtins polyphony in her inquiry. She follows... more...
Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598-1636
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers an overdue assessment of the relationship between the dramatic efforts of the universities and early modern male identity. Taking into account the near single-sex constitution of early modern universities, the book argues that performances... more...
Trance, Dances and Vociferations
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95Trances, Dances and Vociferations provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Assia Djebar, and Paule Marshall. Nada Elia explores the way in which black women characters use conjuring, double entendre, and song to empower, liberate and determine their... more...
Fictional Feminism
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 44.95This book focuses on the way in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. more...
Jane Austen
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 28.95Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. This guide to Austen's much-loved work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Austen's texts, including film adaptations,... more...









