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Women Authors

  • Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writingby Susan Wells

    Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 22.95

    This book is a sociological and rhetorical analysis of the best-selling guide to women's health, the collectively authored Our Bodies, Ourselves. more...

  • (Un)like Subjects RLEby Gerardine Meaney

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 115.00

    What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature? This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied the three most influential French feminists and three... more...

  • 100 Voicesby Scott McConnell

    Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 20.00

    An extensive collection of never-before-published interviews reflecting on Ayn Rand's life and character. Drawing on 100 never-before-published interviews, Scott McConnell presents a unique portrait of a larger-than-life literary giant and a fascinating individual, Ayn Rand. Focusing on the private Rand, McConnell talked to the author's family,... more...

  • A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imaginationby Jane Campbell

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 42.95

    A.S. Byatt's novel Possession: A Romance attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent career, Byatt has steadily published both fiction and non-fiction, the latest of which has not, until now, been given full critical consideration. ... more...

  • Abjection, Melancholia and Love RLEby John Fletcher; Andrew Benjamin

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 115.00

    This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ?The Adolescent Novel?, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ?open structure?. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva?s work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to... more...

  • Adelaide and Theodoreby Gillian Dow

    Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2007; US$ 99.00

    Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within the context of the late eighteenth-century debate on female education. more...

  • Adopting and Remembering Soviet Realityby Dalia Leinarte

    Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 65.00

    For millions of people, the Soviet experience meant not only living through the torment of Stalinism and the GULAG, the unbelievable destiny of men and women during the 1917 Revolution, civil war, and the Second World War, or those breathtaking, gigantic more...

  • Aesthetic Hysteriaby Ankhi Mukherjee

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95

    Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic theory, speech act theory, feminism, and gender... more...

  • Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writingby Alice McLean

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 133.00

    This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify the guidelines of middle class domesticity, Fisher, Toklas,... more...

  • The Aesthetics of Chaosby Michael Patrick Gillespie

    UPF 2003; US$ 59.95

    ?An invigorating (and convincing) challenge to the cornerstone assumptions of virtually all contemporary literary criticism . . . this study lays the groundwork for a dynamic new approach to reading literature. Sure to be controversial, its fundamental right-headedness should help to open debate on the nature of literary criticism across numerous disciplines. more...