Literary Criticism : Women Authors

JK Rowling now is half-way through a series which has taken the world by storm. Unusually, she has attracted success both in terms of massive sales figures and critical acclaim. This study will look at her books and consider some of the reasons for their phenomenal success. This will be done against a background of how Harry Potter relates to other contemporary childrenÆs books so that students and teachers can place them in the context for which they were written.This book has not been authorized by JK Rowling, her agent, or Warner Bros. more...

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Despite its associations with homesickness, the longing associated with nostalgia may also function as a vehicle for imaginatively "fixing" the past in two senses: securing and mending or repairing. This study explores tensions between home and exile, insider and outsider, loss and recovery. more...

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By means of contextualized readings, this work argues that autobiographic writing allows an intimate access to processes of colonization and decolonization, incorporation and resistance, and the formation and reformation of identities which occurs in postcolonial space. The book explores the interconnections between race, gender, autobiography and colonialism and uses a method of reading which looks for connections between very different autobiographical writings to pursue constructions of blackness and whiteness, femininity and masculinity, and nationality. Unlike previous studies of autobiography which focus on a limited Euro American canon, the book brings together contemporary and 19th-century women's autobiographies and travel writing from Canada, the Caribbean, Kenya, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. With emphasis on the reader of autobiography as much as the subject, it argues that colonization and resistance are deeply embedded in thinking about the self. more...

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In this study, the author offers a perspective on Austen's novels and illuminates a period of food history. Ranging over topics from greed to gender to mealtimes and manners, it also discusses Austen's own ambivalent attitude to the provision and enjoyment of food. more...

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This book argues that Jane Austin did know of the French Revolution and its effects on the European world, even though she never refers to it directly in her writing. more...

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