San Antonio College Library

In Hearts of Fire, Kemp Battle celebrates a diverse and deeply satisfying array of folk heroines and other great American women - memorable midwives, teachers, medicine women, historians, mothers, spiritual healers, and suffragettes - who represent an astonishing range of experience and give new meaning to the term pioneer. Gathered from books, journals, diaries, newspapers, and letters spanning three centuries, these fascinating stories highlight...

While the decline of the male hero in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature is usually studied in isolation, Druxes uses a major manifestation of this phenomenon - the failing power of the Faust myth - as an interpretive lens through which to illuminate the corresponding rise in the viability of female Faustian heroes or would-be heroes. Her study of the female Faust figure in the realist novels of Stendhal, Gauthier, Keller, James, and the...

Brownstein offers readings of the classics from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf and reflects on the ties binding women readers to literary heroines. Her thesis is that the typical heroine-centered novel encourages girls to see themselves in literary terms, as central characters in their own stories. She discusses Pamela, Clarissa, novels of Austen and Charlotte Bronte, The Egoist, Daniel Deronda, The Potrait of a Lady and Mrs. Dalloway.