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British Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960
by Harold Bloom. 196 pgs.

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British Women Fiction Writers 1900 - 1960

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British Women Fiction Writers 1900-1960 Volume One

The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973

Agatha Christie 1890-1976

Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1969

E. M. Delafield 1890-1943

Daphne Du Maurier 1907-1989

Rumer Godden B. 1907

Radclyffe Hall 1886-1943

Winifred Holtby 1898-1935

Violet Hunt 1866-1942

Storm Jameson 1891-1986

F. Tennyson Jesse 1888-1958

Pamela Hansford Johnson 1912-1981

Margaret Kennedy 1896-1967

Mary Lavin 1912-1996

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Modern British Women Writers: An A-To-Z Guide
by Del Ivan Janik, Vicki K. Janik, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 428 pgs.

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This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Fleur Adcock 1934-

Beryl Bainbridge 1933-

Pat Barker 1943-

Sybille Bedford 1911-

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Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973

Vera Brittain 1893-1970

Anita Brookner 1928-

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Brigid Brophy 1929-1995

A.S. Byatt 1936-

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Angela Carter 1940-1992

Agatha Christie 1890-1976

Caryl Churchill 1938-

Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1969

Anne Devlin 1951-

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Margaret Drabble 1939-

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Maureen Duffy 1933-

Buchi Emecheta 1944-

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Penelope Fitzgerald 1916-2000

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Pam Gems 1925-

Susan Elizabeth Hill 1942-

Winifred Holtby 1898-1935

Attia Hosain 1913-1998

Elizabeth Jane Howard 1923-

P.D. James 1920-

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Storm Jameson 1891-1986

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Ann Jellicoe 1927-

Pamela Hansford Johnson 1912-1981

Charlotte Keatley 1960-

Rosamond Lehmann 1901-1990

Doris Lessing 1919-

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Penelope Lively 1933-

Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923

Kamala Markandaya 1924-

Pauline Melville 1948-

Charlotte Mew 1869-1928

Penelope Mortimer 1918-1999

Iris Murdoch 1919-1999

Grace Nichols 1950-

Barbara Pym 1913-1980

Jean Rhys 1890-1979

Dorothy Richardson 1873-1957

Vita Sackville-West 1892-1962

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Dorothy L. Sayers 1893-1957

May Sinclair 1863-1946

Edith Sitwell 1887-1964

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Stevie Smith 1902-1971

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Muriel Spark 1918-

Lisa St. Aubin De Terán 1953-

Elizabeth Coles Taylor 1912-1975

Angela Thirkell 1890-1961

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Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893-1978

Fay Weldon 1931-

Timberlake Wertenbaker 1944(?)-

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Mary Wesley 1912-

Rebecca West 1892-1983

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Jeanette Winterson 1959-

Virginia Woolf 1882-1941

E. H. Young 1880-1949

Selected Bibliography

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Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939
by Angela Ingram, Daphine Patai. 320 pgs.

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Introduction: "An Intelligent Discontent with . . . Conditions"

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Part One the Troubled Union of Feminism and Socialism

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Part Two Sexuality and Science: Constructions of the Other

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Part Three in Search of A Moral LIfe

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The Contributors

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Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers
by Kathy Mezei. 286 pgs.

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introduction Contextualizing Feminist Narratology

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the look, the body, and the heroine of persuasion: A Feminist-Narratological View of Jane Austen

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discourse, gender, and gossip Some Reflections on Bakhtin and Emma

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who is speaking here? Free Indirect Discourse, Gender, and Authority in Emma, Howards End, and Mrs. Dalloway

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parsing the female sentence: The Paradox of Containment in Virginia Woolf's Narratives

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Spatialization, narrative theory, and virginia woolf's the voyage out

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the rhetoric of feminist conversation Virginia Woolf and the Trope of the Twist

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the terror and the ecstasy: The Textual Politics of Virginia Woolf's

IMPOSSIBLE MEANING: THE SHIFTING OF SIGNS

seismic orgasm: Sexual Intercourse and Narrative Meaning in Mina Loy

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ironies of politeness in anita brookner's hotel du lac

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angela carter's new eve(lyn) De / En-Gendering Narrative alison lee

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queering narratology

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coda. incredulity toward metanarrative: Negotiating Postmodernism and Feminisms

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Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837
by Carol Shiner Wilson, Joel Haefner. 336 pgs.

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Illustrations

Reading Women's Texts

Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in Context

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Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson's Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography

"A Name More Dear": Daughters, Fathers, and Desire in a Simple Story, the False Friend, and Mathilda

Romantic Aspirations, Restricted Possibilities: the Novels of Charlotte Smith

Gender and the Cultural Matrix

Configurations of Feminine Reform: The Woman Writer and the Tradition of Dissent

The Way Above the World: Religion and Gender in Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Women's Writing, 1780-1830

"Domestic Affections" and "The Spear of Minerva": Felicia Hemans and the Dilemma of Gender

Lost Needles, Tangled Threads: Stitchery, Domesticity, and the Artistic Enterprise In Barbauld, Edgeworth, Taylor, and Lamb

Re-Visioning Romantic Aesthetics

Female Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte Smith

Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Hemans

The Politics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility

The Romantic Scene(s) of Writing

English Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the Passions

Primary Works

Contributors

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Virtue's Faults: Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction
by April Alliston. 322 pgs.

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Challenging current notions of the transmission of a literary tradition, this study recontextualises the works of neglected eighteenth-century women writers.

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Chapter 1 Reading Faults

Chapter 2 What the Princess Left; Or, Exemplary Faults in La Princesse De Clèves

Chapter 3 Communicable Faults; Or, Repetition and Transmission In Fictions of Women's Correspondence

Chapter 4 The Spectral Mother; Or, the Fault of Living On

Chapter 5 Secret Communications; Or, Faults of Transmission

Chapter 6 Corinne's Correspondences; Or, the Fault of Passing On

Epilogue Jane Austen's Drawing Room; or, Framing Common Faults

Reference Matter

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Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World
by Rhoda B. Nathan. 276 pgs.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

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Foreword

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Preface

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1: The Bride of the White Election: A New Look at Biblical Influence on Emily Dickinson

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2: Sisters and Survivors: Catherine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie

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3: The Novels of Mary Jane Holmes: Education for Wifehood

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Lewis Carroll and the Education of Victorian Women

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5: Emily Dickinson and Her Mentor in Feminist Perspective

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6: Henry James and the Artist-Heroine in the Tales of Constance Fenimore Woolson

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7: Nineteenth-Century Women Cook Book Authors

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8: Jane Eyre and Poverty

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9: Once More to the Attic: Bertha Rochester and the Pattern of Redemption in Jane Eyre

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10: Christina Rossetti: A Reconsideration

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11: The Price of Love: Gaskell Versus Eliot

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12: A Second Look at the Belle

13: 'Michael Field' (edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley) and Their Male Critics

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14: Feminism and Positivism in George Eliot's Romola

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15: George Eliot and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: A Friendship

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16: The Second Act: Emily Dickinson's Orphaned Persona

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17: The Female Alcoholic in Victorian Fiction: George Eliot's Unpoetic Heroine

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18: Afro-American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

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19: Jane Austen's Mediative Voice

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20: Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century: The Feminist Manifesto

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21: The Career Woman Fiction of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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22: The Soul's Society: Emily Dickinson and Colonel Higginson

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23: George Eliot and Feminism: The Case of Daniel Deronda

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Faith of a Woman Writer
by Alice Kessler-Harris, William McBrien. 358 pgs.

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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34 essays, contributed by some of today's most distinguished writers, speaks to the work of a particular 20th-century woman writer, and each constitutes a contribution to the scholarly debate.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

Copyright Acknowledgments

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1: Introduction

2: The (Woman) Writer

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3: Joyce Carol Oates's the Dead and Feminist Criticism

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4: Acts of Self-Creation: Female Identity in the Novels of Margaret Drabble

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5: Grave Endearing Traditions": Edith Wharton and the Domestic Novel"

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6: Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Their Nineteenth-Century Forerunners

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7: The Poetic World of Snezhina Slavova

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8: Kay Boyle: In a Woman's Voice

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9: Two Women: The Transformations

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10: Effects of Urbanization in the Novels of Christiane Rochefort

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11: Irmgard Keun: A German Deviation

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12: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Jean Rhys: What Rhys's Letters Show About That Relationship

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13: Literary Criticism

14: Miles Franklin: Chronicler of the Australian Bush and Early Feminist

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15: Edna St. Vincent Millay--Saint of the Modern Sonnet

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16: Domestic Comedy, Black Comedy, and Real Life: Shirley Jackson, a Woman Writer

17: Records of Survival: The Autobiographical Writings of Marieluise Fleisser and Marie Luise Kaschnitz

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18: Jhabvala's Fiction: The Passage from India

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19: Luise Rinser's Autobiographical Prose: Political Engagement and Feminist Awareness

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20: Women and Choice--A New Look at Simone De Beauvoir and the Second Sex

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21: Virginia, Virginius, Virginity

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22: Sexual Politics and Female Heroism in the Novels of Christina Stead

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23: Agnes Smedley's Cell Mates": A Writer's Discovery of Voice, Form, and Subject in Prison"

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24: The Transformation of Privilege in the Work of Elena Poniatowska

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25: Marguerite Yourcenar's Sexual Politics in Fiction, 1939

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26: A Way of Ordering Experience: A Study of Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye and Sula

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27: A Voice of Authority

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28: Charlotte Delbo, a Woman/Book

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29: The Case of the Dangling Signifier: Phallic Imagery in Eudora Welty's Moon Lake""

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30: An End to Torment: H.D.'s Metonymic Course

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31: Leslie Stephen Revisited: A New Fragment of Virginia Woolf's A Sketch of the Past""

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32: Defeating the False God: Janie's Self- Determination in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

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33: The Woman Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood

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34: In Search of Ordinary Human Happiness": Rebellion and Affirmation in Mary Gordon's Novels"

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About the Editors and Contributors

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The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies
by Sara Heller Mendelson. 240 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter I Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Chapter II May Rich, Countess of Warwick

Chapter III Aphra Behn

Epilogue

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Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings
by Angela Keane. 200 pgs.

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Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Romantic Belongings

Chapter 2: Domesticating the Sublime: Ann Radcliffe and Gothic Dissent

Chapter 3: Forgotten Sentiments: Helen Maria Williams's 'Letters from France'

Chapter 4: Exiles and émigrés: the Wanderings of Charlotte Smith

Chapter 5: Mary Wollstonecraft and the National Body

Chapter 6: Patrician, Populist and Patriot: Hannah More's Counter-Revolutionary Nationalism

Afterword

Notes

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