Dillard's autobiography is an exuberant account of growing up in 1950s Pittsburgh in a wealthy and accomplished family. Dillard conveys in polished prose the sheer joy of being young, smart, and passionately observant in a world she sees as endlessly fascinating.
This reissue of the groundbreaking study of female 19th-century writers contains a new introduction in which Gilbert and Guber address the origins of their own interest in feminist literary criticism.
OUT OF AFRICA is the classic account of the experiences of Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) in Kenya, where she managed a coffee plantation for 17 years, from 1914 to 1931, first with her difficult husband the Baron von Blixen and, after their divorce, by herself. One of the most popular books of the 20th century, it provides a vivid and lyrical ...
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.
Essays and creative pieces on a variety of subjects by women of color, exploring their concerns from a feminist perspective. Edited by Gloria Anzaldua, whom the Journal of the Southwest has called "an accomplished writer, able to marshal passionate intensity in support of her attempt to do away with dualities.
Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English.
With this powerful and provocative book the authors of the classic The Madwoman in the Attic launch a landmark three-volume overview of modern literature in England and America, bringing feminist theory to bear on writings by men as well as women. In Volume One Gilbert and Gubar survey the social, literary, and linguistic conflicts between men and ...
This survey of the most prominent writers of the 1920s includes F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edna Ferber, Edmund Wilson, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and many more. Marion Meade also explores the ambiance of the period--the drinking, partying, and pranks, as well as the depression, instability, alcoholism, and insanity.
Marlene hosts a dinner part in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904), the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258), the mediaeval Japanese courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull ...
Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English.
In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, ...
Written with the full cooperation of Anne Rice - and now with more than 1,200 entries - The Vampire Companion offers an insightful exploration, appreciation, and interpretation of all the characters and events, names and places, symbols and themes in the five volumes of The Vampire Chronicles, including more than one hundred pages of new entries ...
In the first biography written with exclusive access to Anais Nin's complete, original diary and with the full cooperation of her surviving husband, family and friends, Bair offers a dazzling exploration of one of the most complex and complexing women of our time. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of a prolific and talented writer whose most ...
Finally, "My Emily Dickinson," Susan Howe's singular and unforgettable 1985 creative study, is available as a New Directions paperbook. With exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson free of all the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and shows the poet in touch with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all her radical ...
This collection of writings by 87 Native American women writers from some 50 tribal nations includes prayers, testimonials, personal narratives, essays, poetry and fiction. Well-known writers such as Louis Erdrich, Linda Hogan and Leslie Marmon Silko have pieces in the collection, as do many other less well-known and first time writers.
Craig Seligman adored his friend Pauline Kael for her easy acceptance of pop culture in the context of her fiercely intelligent movie reviews. He writes approvingly of her here, even as he writes with less tolerance of a critic he feels is equally important, Susan Sontag. Sontag, Seligman feels, is arrogant and elitist and, worst of all, humorless ...
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