Feminism in literature : a Gale critical companion

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Where to find it

Davis Library — Reference (1st floor)

Call Number
PN471 .F43 2005
Summary
v.1-6
Call Number
PN471 .F43 2005 v.1
Status
In-Library Use Only
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PN471 .F43 2005 v.2
Status
In-Library Use Only
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PN471 .F43 2005 v.3
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In-Library Use Only
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PN471 .F43 2005 v.4
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In-Library Use Only
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PN471 .F43 2005 v.5
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In-Library Use Only
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PN471 .F43 2005 v.6
Status
In-Library Use Only

Summary

This six-volume set, the latest offering from the Gale Critical Companion Collection, explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times. Topics covered include misogyny and women's social roles in ancient civilizations, 16th-century women's devotional literature, 17th- and 18th-century women's captivity narratives, the women's suffrage movement in 19th-century America, women writers of the Lost Generation, lesbian literature, modern feminist theory, criticism and scholarship and much more. Also included are detailed studies of prominent women writers, including Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich and many others. Three indexes - author, title and subject - help researchers find information across the set, making it easy to make connections and find related details. Feminism in Literature is the third set in the new Gale Critical Companion Collection which is designed to complement and extend the existing Literary Criticism Series. in literature and the humanities designed to meet the research needs of high school and undergraduate students.

Contents

Partial contents: Volume 1 -- Women and women's writings from antiquity through the Middle Ages -- Women in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries -- Women's literature in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries -- Christine de Pizan 1365- c. 1431-- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651-1695 -- Margery Kempe 1373-1440 -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689-1762 -- Sappho fl. 6th century B.C. -- Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784 -- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797 -- Volume 2 -- Women in the 19th century -- Women's literature in the 19th century -- United States suffrage movement in the 19th century -- Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 -- Jane Austen 1775-1817 -- Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855 -- Emily Brontë 1818-1848 -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 -- Fanny Burney 1752-1840 -- Volume 3 -- Kate Chopin 1851-1904 -- Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 -- Maria Edgeworth 1768-1849 -- George Eliot 1819-1880 -- Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 -- Marietta Holley 1836-1926 -- Harriet Jacobs 1813-1897 -- Sarah Orne Jewett 1849-1909 -- Christina Rossetti 1830-1894 -- George Sand 1804-1876 -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick 1789-1867 -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851 -- Germaine de Staël 1766-1817 -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 -- Volume 4 -- Women in the early to mid-20th century (1900-1960) -- Suffrage in the 20th century -- Women's literature from 1900 to 1960 -- The feminist movement in the 20th century -- Women's literature from 1960 to present -- Volume 5 -- Anna Akhmatova 1889-1966 -- Isabel Allende 1942- -- Maya Angelou 1928- -- Margaret Atwood 1939- -- Simone de Beauvoir 1908-1986 -- Gwendolyn Brooks 1917-2000 -- Willa Cather 1873-1947 -- Sandra Cisneros 1954- -- Hélène Cixous 1937- -- H. D. 1886-1961 -- Marguerite Duras 1914-1996 -- Andrea Dworkin 1946- -- Buchi Emecheta 1944- -- Louise Erdrich 1954- -- Marilyn French 1929- -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935 -- Volume 6 -- Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965 -- Bessie Head 1937-1986 -- Lillian Hellman c. 1905-1984 -- Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 -- Maxine Hong Kingston 1940- -- Doris Lessing 1919- -- Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 -- Marianne Moore 1887-1972 -- Toni Morrison 1931- -- Joyce Carol Oates 1938- -- Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 -- Andrienne Rich 1929- -- Anne Sexton 1928-1974 -- Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 -- Amy Tan 1952- -- Alice Walker 1944- --Edith Wharton 1862-1937 -- Virginia Woolf 1882-1941.

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