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"Overturning many of the established perspectives on Larkin's poetry and prose, Cooper's book presents new evidence from a range of previously unpublished sources, and is the first full-length critical work to analyse Larkin's early fiction, as well as advancing new readings of The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows." "Critics have tended to label Larkin's poetry as sexist, racist and reactionary. However, this volume demonstrates...

Blood will tell explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire-related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gender, and anti-Semitism, Robinson demonstrates the ways in which rhetoric tied to blood and vampires permeated political discourse and transcended the disparate cultures of Great...

For almost a century critics of George Bernard Shaw's dramatic works have accepted the characterization of Shaw as an artist and thinker well ahead of his time with regard to social issues - women's liberation in particular. Since the first wave of feminist criticism in the 1960s and 1970s, however, very little effort has been made to examine Shaw's works in the light of the most recent and challenging developments in feminist theory and gender studies....

Between 1880 and 1920, the New Woman novel outraged "ladies," rallied women's rights activists, and inspired women readers and writers to harness an emerging popular literary market for their own political purposes. British author and activist Sarah Grand (1854-1943) took center stage, popularizing the term New Woman, marching for suffrage, lecturing from platforms in Britain and America, and publishing fiction and essays that challenged the most...

This highly original study explores Joyce's interest in sexual questions, and shows that, far from remaining aloof from the intellectual and social concerns of his time, Joyce was intimately engaged with them. Individual chapters consider Joyce's extensive reading on the question of marriage and its impact on his work, his responses to the new sexual ideology as expounded in the writings of Freud and Havelock Ellis, his concern with feminist issues...

The history of America's feminist playwrights is as old as the history of the nation. Since the incorporation of the United States in the late 1700s, scores of women have dramatized the plight of women in a culture dominated by the interests of its men. Mercy Otis Warren, a patriot of the Revolution, was not only the country's first woman playwright but also its first feminist playwright. Warren and the dramatists Susanna Rowson and Anna Cora Mowatt,...