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"Volume 1 focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself.
Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this volume 2 examines the diversity of...
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Chronicles both the evolution in and the revolutions in women's literature and women's images of women in England, the United States, Canada, Australia, India, Africa, and other English-speaking regions. Includes works by over 150 authors, as well as analysis and biographical information.
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This guide celebrates the twentieth-century achievements of women writers across the English-speaking world as well as all the centuries before. This comprehensive work of reference on literary women writing in English with over 2500 entries written by academics, freelances and journalists, men and women, poets and novelists, young scholars and distinguished names.--[book cover].
"This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's...
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"A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry offers a detailed record and analysis of an array of publications, activities and achievements.
Organized into three historical periods (1900-1945, 1945-1980 and 1980-2000), each part is introduced by an evaluative overview in which the emerging poets are mapped against cultural and literary events or trends."
"A chronology and detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering...
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In this work, the author's detailed readings of birth stories - both literary and medical - reveal deeply embedded assumptions about how women are viewed and view themselves. The current debates about "natural" childbirth are examined alongside key literary works by well-known writers.
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"British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining. This book offers an informal, jargon-free introduction to the fiction of sixteen contemporary writers either brought up or now living in England. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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