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Oppositional Voices

Women as Writers and Translators in the English Renaissance

By Tina Krontiris

Oppositional Voices is a study of six women writers in the late Elizabethan period. Until the early 1980s it was generally assumed that women did…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-16263-0 (Routledge)

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Margaret Cavendish

Sociable Letters

By James FitzmauriceEdited by James Fitzmaurice

Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), Duchess of Newcastle and one of the best-known women writers of the her time, is enjoying a revival in the wake of…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2451-5 (Routledge)

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Homemaking

Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home

By Catherine Wiley, Fiona R. BarnesCatherine WileyFiona Barnes

This collection of critical and creative work reconceptualizes what home and being at home means for women writers worldwide. Rather than focusing on how concepts…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2055-5 (Routledge)

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Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Brown

Toward a Realism of Uncertainty

By Herta Newman

This study offers a fresh evaluation of Woolf's works, including the major novels, short stories, biographies, critical essays, and reviews. It reveals that even those…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8240-5172-3 (Routledge)

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A Magazine of Her Own?

Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914

By Margaret Beetham

Like the corset, the women's magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural' idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the…

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1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14112-3 (Routledge)

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Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents

Edited by S.P. Cerasano, Marion Wynne-Davies

Renaissance Drama By Women is a unique volume of plays and documents. For the first time, it demonstrates the wide range of theatrical activity in…

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1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-09807-6 (Routledge)

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Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology

Edited by Jane Dowson

Where were the women of the so-called `Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles,social values and world politics,women produced a rich variety of…

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1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-13096-7 (Routledge)

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Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook

By Carolyne Larrington

Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and Europe from Iceland…

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1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-10685-6 (Routledge)

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Shopping Around

Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure

By Hilary Radner

Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction…

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1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90540-4 (Routledge)

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Women Writers and Artists

Modernist (Im)Positionings

By B. J. Elliott, Jo-Ann Wallace

In this beautifully illustrated and provocative study, Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace reappraise women's literary and artistic contribution to Modernism. Through comparative case studies, including…

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1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-05366-2 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity
By Karen Leick
To be published March 15th 2009

Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction: Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen
By Emily Hodgson Anderson
To be published April 1st 2009

Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel: The Corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore
By Renee Dickinson
To be published May 15th 2009

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