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  • The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit

    Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation

    by Heike Missler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (1997). Branded by their pink or pastel-coloured book covers, chick-lit novels have been a highly successful and ubiquitous product of women's popular culture since the late 1990s.This study traces the evolution of chick lit ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    by Jane Austen ...
    Jane Austen - At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunts husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomass younger son. Fanny is soon possessed of beauty as well as a keen mind and comes to the attention of a neighbor, Henry Crawford. ... Read more

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  • Villette

    by Charlotte Bronte ...
    After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. The novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as its acute tracing of Lucy's psychology, particularly Brontë's use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonist is suffering ... Read more

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  • Seduction and Betrayal

    Women and Literature

    by Elizabeth Hardwick ...
    A vivid and provocative literary criticism of famous women writers from Virginia Woolf to Zelda Fitzgerald by a “gifted miniaturist biographer” (Joyce Carol Oates)The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women ... Read more

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  • Engendering Genre

    The Works of Margaret Atwood

    by Reingard M. Nischik ...
    Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize.In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. She approaches Atwood’s oeuvre by genre – poetry, short fiction, novels, criticism, comics, and film – and examines them individually. She explores how Atwood has developed her genres to be gender ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Ambiguous Discourse

    Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers

    Edited by Kathy Mezei ...
    Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy. This collection of twelve essays is the first book devoted to feminist narratology — the combination of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass

    L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance

    by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly ...
    When it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery’s books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery’s fiction, Epperly argues that Montgomery was much more than a master of the romance genre and that, through her use of literary allusions, repetitions, irony, and comic inversions, ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth Bishop

    Her Poetics of Loss

    by Susan McCabe ...
    Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work—poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material—to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in the act of writing. Susan McCabe argues that Bishop counters modernist claims for an autonomous art ... Read more

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  • Locating Gender in Modernism

    The Outsider Female

    by Geetha Ramanathan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world ... Read more

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  • Where No Man has Gone Before

    Essays on Women and Science Fiction

    Edited by Lucie Armitt ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics?What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry?These are just some of the questions addressed by this ... Read more

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  • Toni Morrison

    Forty Years in The Clearing

    Edited by Carmen Gillespie ...
    Series series The Griot Project Book Series
    Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison’s work has become synonymous with the most significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time. The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison’s imagination. Toni Morrison: ... Read more

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  • The Once and Future Queen

    Guinevere in Arthurian Legend

    by Nicole Evelina ...
    Guinevere’s journey from literary sinner to feminist icon took over one thousand years…and it’s not over yet.Literature tells us painfully little about Guinevere, mostly focusing on her sin and betrayal of Arthur and Camelot. As a result, she is often seen as a one-dimensional character. But there is more to her story. By examining popular works of more than 20 authors over the last one thousand ... Read more

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