San Antonio College Library

"The Language of Exclusion" is a pioneering feminist critical study of two of the most enigmatic 19th-century women poets--Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. The authors take as their point of departure the spinster/recluse model, which they argue has characterized most biographies of 19th-century women poets written before 1960. Rejecting this model, they build instead on the rich tradition of feminist literary criticism exemplified by the work...

"American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of Americas desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850?" "In The Importance of Feeling English, Leonard Tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features. Using...