Biographical Misrepresentations Of British Women Writers

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319567500
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers written by Brenda Ayres and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.

Author : Janet M. Todd
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Women Writers written by Janet M. Todd and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1989 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A welcome and necessary addition to the reference shelf". -- Washington Post Book World

Author : Paul Schlueter
Publisher : New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813525426
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers written by Paul Schlueter and published by New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad examination of women writers identified with Great Britain builds on its predecessor's strengths, with fifty percent new material as well as completely updated entries. Over 600 writers are discussed in terms of their biographies, with precise details where these could be ascertained and in some cases correcting biographies in other reference works, as well as thematic issues and critical reception. Each entry includes a definitive bibliography of primary works and thorough secondary bibliographies (including book-length studies, reference works, major essays and reviews) to lead readers to other sources. Available in paperback for the first time, this book is an ideal desk reference for scholar and student alike.

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137292172
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945 written by M. Joannou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Author : Faye Hammill
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403916921
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950 written by Faye Hammill and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique reference work provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers and topics. As well as detailed entries on women writing across a whole range of genres, it provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications, as well as literary and historical events. An integral timeline provides a framework for the entries, and a thorough, annotated bibliography of relevant critical material is an invaluable point of reference.

Author : June Schlueter
Publisher : Garland Science
ISBN 13 : 9780815319450
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Women Writers written by June Schlueter and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa Kasmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611474957
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novel Histories written by Lisa Kasmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 explores issues of historical and literary genres, historiography, and the gendering of civic and literary roles. It demonstrates the new and sometimes subversive ways that women authors pushed the limits of writing history in order to participate in contemporary national civic life otherwise closed to them.

Author : Dale Spender
Publisher : New York : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807762608
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living by the Pen written by Dale Spender and published by New York : Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living by the pen reclaims the literary heritage of early British women writers from the predominantly male tradition. Written by researchers and writers in the area, this work aims to provide accessible and useful background material on the women, the writing, and the period. The book is divided into three sections: the women; the issues, including violence against women in these early texts and the women's authority as writers; and the creative and professional achievements of these women.

Author : Janet M. Todd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of British Women Writers written by Janet M. Todd and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 450 entries cover major and minor British women writers from the Middle Ages to the present day. Each entry gives biographical details and a discussion of key works and themes. Critical references are also included.

Author : Susan Civale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101289
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic women's life writing written by Susan Civale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the publication of women’s life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the ‘private’. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing—a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification—in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it.