Product Description: This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered knowledge and the implications of accounts of gendered language, cultural restraints on the representation of sexuality, women’s agency, cultural and political change, a feminist aesthetics and new readings of race and class...read more

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Product Description: In these essays, a leading feminist critic and authority on women's poetry sets the terms for debate on identity, gender, and tradition by exploring what is has meant to write in the 20th Century. Written with Montefiore's customary lucidity, elegance, and wit, this book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in feminist literary studies, women's poetry, and the dilemmas of the modern writer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This critical collection revisits romance across the disciplines, not just in fiction and film, but in a whole range of cultural phenomena. Essays range over such issues as the royal marriage, Valentine's Day, inter-racial relationships and the romance of the scientific quest.

Product Description: A critical reexamination of George Bernard Shaw's dramatic treatment of women.

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Product Description: Book by Marcus, Jane

Product Description: This book is the first broad survey of feminist critical theory and practice, and one of the few contributions to the subject to have been written by a male academic, in the belief that the basic premise of feminist literary criticism - that gender is the crucial factor in the production, circulation, and reception of literary texts - is of fundamental importance to all serious students of literature...read more