San Antonio College Library

"Scott asserts that a new feminist consciousness will facilitate fresh discoveries in Joyce. Shifting from contexts, to individuals, to texts, she provides the reader with a re-vision of women and Joyce. She develops a feminist framework for approaching Joyce, which allows for the mutual communication of conventional and feminist critics. In Joyce and Feminism, Scott demonstrates Joyce's need for and use of women in the creation and publication of...

"The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture - the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic - and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to...

A biography of the New York Yankee slugger whose feat of playing in 2130 consecutive games earned him the nickname "The Iron Man."

"A strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Desire and Domestic Fiction makes a major contribution to feminist theory, to the understanding of the role of gender in culture and its relation to political change, and to studies in the history of the British novel. Its successful application of contemporary theory, especially its use of Foucault's History of Sexuality, will interest scholars involved in the criticism of culture"--Jacket....

In this book, Barbara Leah Harman convincingly establishes a new category in Victorian fiction: the feminine political novel. By studying Victorian female protagonists who participate in the public universe conventionally occupied by men - the world of mills and city streets, of political activism and labor strikes, of public speaking and parliamentary debates - she is able to reassess the public realm as the site of noble and meaningful action for...