Product Description: A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives including poststructuralism, gender studies, postmodernism and psychoanalysis...read more

Product Description: Through reviews of the works of important male and female authors of the decade--Thomas Hardy, Sarah Grand, George Gissing, Mona Caird, George Meredith, Ménie Dowie, George Moore, and Henrietta Stannard--these periodicals developed a feminist realist aesthetic that drew on three aspects of woman's agency (consciousness, spoken word, and action) and emphasized corresponding narrative strategies (internal perspective, dialogue, and description of characters' actions)...read more

Product Description: The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction explores the representation of Victorian womanhood in the work of some of today's most important British and North American novelists including A.S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison...read more

Product Description: This is an in-depth study of the longest creative period in Virginia Woolf's career, leading to the publication of The Waves. The study is a feminist consideration of the complex historical and personal factors, such as censorship and impersonality, that motivated Woolf's experiment with genre and her portrayal of the feminine...read more

Product Description: Psychohistorian Simms, an American and Israeli citizen who lives in New Zealand, looks closely at Female Quixote, the 1752 the English narrative by Lennox, bypassing rather than challenging the current feminist, post-colonialist, and post-modernist perspectives...read more

Product Description: Dr. Camus' study first tries to reinstate Gaskell as one of the significant novelists of the mid Victorian period through looking at her work as a whole, avoiding the usual dividing line between her condition-of-England novels and her more intimate fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Peters' groundbreaking study focuses on women as narrators in six British novels to show that the strategic use of women's narratives was intrinsic to the formation of the Western novel as a literary form and in fact has come to define what we now understand as "novelistic" even in non-canonical works...read more

Product Description: This book is an examination of feminist writers' appropriation of a range of popular genres: detective fiction, science fiction, romance, and the fairy tale. The author argues that feminists can successfully appropriate all four genres because genres, as cultural productions, have accommodated the cultural changes brought about by second-wave feminism...read more

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Product Description: A fine looking copy - but, it has one of those modern magnetic bar codes made of plastic affixed to outside spine of book usually used to provide protecton from stealing or detecton in one of those walk- through scanners. A scholarly investigation of Samuel Johnson's influence upon Jane Austen's writing and thinking...read more

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Product Description: A classic account of Jane Austen in the context of eighteenth century feminist ideas and contemporary thought. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home...read more

Product Description: Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy...read more

Product Description: An introduction to feminist literary criticism which emphasises the practical issues of applying these often wide-ranging theories to particular texts. It analyzes in turn several schools of feminist thought, including gynocriticism, authentic realism and Marxism...read more

Alice Walker’s womanist theory about black feminist identity and practice also contains a critique of white liberal feminism. This is the first in-depth study to examine issues of identity and difference within feminism by drawing on Walker’s notion of an essential black feminist consciousness.Allan defines womanism as a “(r)evolutionary aesthetic that seeks to fully realize the feminist goal of resistance to patriarchal domination,” demonstrated most powerfully in The Color Purple. She also recognizes the complexities and ambiguities embedded in the concept, particularly the notion of a fixed and unitary black feminist identity, separate and distinct from its white counterpart. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Drabble’s The Middle Ground, she argues, do not allay Walker’s concerns about white liberal feminist practice, but they reveal signs of struggle that complicate the womanist/feminist dichotomy. Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, an ostensibly womanist text, fails to fit the race-restrictive womanist paradigm, and Walker’s own aesthetic trajectory—before The Color Purple—places her outside womanist boundaries. Finally, Allan’s intertextual reading reveals significant commonalities and differences.In the current debate among competing feminisms, this critical appraisal of womanist theory underscores the need for new thinking about essentialism, identity, and difference, and also for creative cooperation in the struggle against domination.

Product Description: This book examines the depiction of the social construction of male homosexuality, lesbianism, and women's role in "The Bell", "A Fairly Honourable Defeat", "An Accidental Man", "The Philosopher's Pupil", and "The Green Knight". It also explores the representation of power dynamics in the portrayal of homosexuality in Murdoch's fiction and takes a detailed look at the illustration of power-knowledge vis-a-vis incest in "A Severed Head and The Time of the Angels"...read more

Product Description: In recent decades the vision of Austen as a subversive or rebellious author has appeared most forcefully in the varied scholarship of feminist literary critics. Some feminists have fashioned an Austen more closely linked to what Juliet Mitchell has called 'The Longest Revolution' (the women's movement) than to the French Revolution; others have vehemently disagreed...read more