A valuable survey and reference resource It is hard to imagine a more needed and more useful literary reference work than this one, which gives students and readers quick access to the lives and work of a wide range of notable female writers from England and the Continent, from Aphra Behn to Emily Bronte, from Simone de Beauvoir to Isak Dinesen, ...
This is a selection of Doris Lessing's essays and reviews on literature, politics and autobiography from the late 1950s to the 1970s, plus interviews with the author herself. It includes pieces on Kurt Vonnegut, Olive Schreiner, Malcolm X and Sufism and an autobiographical piece, "Impertinent Daughters".
This book assembles a cast of sixteen distinguished theater historians and performance critics, each of whom has contributed significantly to our understanding of issues associated with performing works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Their essays, all appearing in print for the first time, are presented in two groupings: a theater history ...
Considered by many critics to be Britain's most important woman novel-ist, Doris Lessing warrants major atten-tion. Her novels increasingly bring into question what it means to be an eman-cipated woman in a complex and male-dominated society, especially a woman involved with politics, with writing, with love and sex--a woman who frankly admits her ...
Contributions from some 125 scholars provide a comprehensive critical reference guide to nearly 400 authors. Includes not only all the major figures but also lesser-known writers from the early medieval period to the present, and covers all traditional literary genres as well as detective and roman
This broad examination of women writers identified with Great Britain builds on its predecessor's strengths, with fifty percent new material as well as completely updated entries. Over 600 writers are discussed in terms of their biographies, with precise details where these could be ascertained and in some cases correcting biographies in other ...
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