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Jane Austen
[Paperback 1998]
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I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. Emma Woodhouse is certain of one thing: that she's an excellent matchmaker . . . even though she's never been in love. Emma dives into the game of... more
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Jane Austen ,
Marilyn Butler
[Paperback 2008]
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At Northanger Abbey Jane Austen's charmingly imperfect heroine, Catherine Morland, meets all the trappings of gothic horror and imagines the worst. Fortunately she has, at hand, her own fundamental good sense and the irresistible but unsentimental hero, Henry Tilney. Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days.... more
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Shashi Deshpande
[Paperback 2000]
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The new novel from the bestselling author of That Long Silence The narrator in The Binding Vine is the clever, sharp-tongued Urmi, grieving over the death of her baby daughter and surrounded by, but rebuffing, the care of her mother and her childhood friend, Vanaa. Instead, she becomes caught up... more
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George Eliot
[Paperback 2011]
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and... more
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Elaine Showalter
[Paperback 2010]
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"A Jury of Her Peers "is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--brimming with Elaine Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--we are introduced to more than 250 female writers. These include not only... more
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Elizabeth Gaskell ,
Alan Shelston
[Paperback 1998]
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Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave "Jane Eyre" the subtitle "An Autobiography". It recounts Charlotte Bronte's life from her isolated childhood, through her years as a writer... more
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Ruth Gruber
[Paperback 2005]
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In 1935, while Virginia Woolf was alive and building her career as a woman writer, Ruth Gruber published a seminal essay on the novelist that is now seen as the first feminist interpretation of Woolf's writings and life. Seventy years after its original publication, Gruber's seminal critique is available once... more
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Catharine R Stimpson ,
Jr Henry Louis Gates
[Paperback 1984]
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This book is divided into two sections, thus clarifying the nature of black literary theory, on the one hand, and the features of black literary practice, on the other. ""Black Literature and Literary Theory" is of the first importance, not only for scholars of black literature, but also for literary... more
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Nawal Sa Dawi ,
Nawal El Saadawi
[Paperback 1997]
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Annette Van Dyke
[Paperback 1992]
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"[A] bridge-building book [that] illuminates the interconnections among feminist creators from multi-cultural mainstream traditions; one that creates bonds of sisterhood. Annette Van Dyke makes us aware of the way in which feminist spirituality unites women, even when the material conditions of their lives foster divisions." —Gloria Feman Orenstein, University of... more
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Jane De Gay
[Paperback 2008]
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This book argues that Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past had a profound impact on the content and structure of her novels. It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks in order to provide a framework for examining her response to the literary past.... more
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Roger Whitlow
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Roger Whitlow demonstrates that the negative criticism about the women characters in Ernest Hemingway's fiction is often misguided, perhaps entirely wrong. He argues that most of Hemingway's female characters have strengths that have been consistently overlooked by critics prejudiced by earlier Hemingway criticism or influenced in their evaluations by the... more
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Renee R Curry
[Hardcover 2000]
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Just as the cultural background of readers shapes how they respond to texts, the context in which writers live shapes what they write. When a context is dominant within a culture, the effects of that context upon an author may be taken for granted and thus overlooked. Race is a... more
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Coral Ann Howells
[Paperback 1998]
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Alice Munro--Canada's greatest short story writer--creates women's narratives full of silent female knowledge, secrecy, and fascination with local gossip and scandal. This first full-length study of Munro's work explores the appeal of her fictional depictions of small-town Canadian life with their precise attention to social surfaces. Alice Munro is Canada7;s... more
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Diah Ariani Arimbi
[Paperback 2010]
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"Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers" looks at the work of four writers--Titis Basino P.I., Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy, and Helvy Tiana Rosa--paying particular attention to questions of how gender is constructed and in turn constructs the identities, roles, and status of Muslim women in Indonesia. In addition,... more
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Elleke Boehmer
[Paperback 2009]
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Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. This book combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, "daughter" writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony,... more
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Phillipa Kafka
[Hardcover 2000]
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Like so many other ethnic groups, Chicanos and Chicanas have suffered from political, social, and economic oppression in the United States. In addition to the problems they endure as a consequence of their ethnicity, Chicanas are further subordinated because of their gender. As women, they are treated inequitably by a... more
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Virginia Bortin
[Hardcover 1993]
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Elinor Remick Warren's distinguished career as a composer, concert pianist, and accompanist for renowned singers spanned seventy-five years of American musical history. She began writing music in 1904 at age four. Her first published composition, a song, was accepted by G. Schirmer in 1916. Thereafter, her compositions appeared regularly through... more
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Marilyn Demarest Button ,
Toni Reed
[Hardcover 1999]
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While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities that have emerged as people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds have moved within her borders, or when her own citizens have emigrated among those foreigners to live or... more
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Richard J Schrader
[Hardcover 1983]
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