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  • Naming Jhumpa Lahiri

    Canons and Controversies

    Edited by Lavina Dhingra, Floyd Cheung ...
    Jhumpa Lahiri is among the few contemporary writers being read widely by both mainstream and minority audiences, the general public and academic scholars, in the U.S. and globally. While her works focus on specific ethnic experiences of highly educated, upper middle-class professional Bengalis and their children living in New England since the 1970s, they simultaneously address universal themes ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

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  • Anne of Green Gables : Free Audio Book Link

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    Anne of Green Gables (1908) is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written as fiction for readers of all ages, the literary classic has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who have a farm on Prince ... Read more

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  • Gender Trouble

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  • The Collected Early Writings (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Voyage Out + Night and Day + Monday or Tuesday and Other Short Stories + Jacob's Room (4 books in 1 ebook)

    by Virginia Woolf, Cora Tallowmere ...
    The Collected Early Writings gathers Virginia Woolf's apprentice work—juvenilia, sketches, reviews, essays, and early fiction—that reveals the formation of one of modernism's most distinctive minds. These pieces move between satire, observation, literary criticism, and narrative experiment, often displaying the wit, social acuity, and rhythmic prose that would later mature in Mrs Dalloway, To the ... Read more

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  • When Memory Speaks

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    J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives.In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques ... Read more

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  • Julia

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    by Natasha Duquette ...
    Series series Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
    This critical edition of Julia is the first modern printing of a novel that blends the character development of a poet with critical reflections on social injustice. ... Read more

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  • Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918

    by Carole Gerson ...
    Canadian Women in Print, 1750—1918 is the first historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple aspects of print over some two hundred years, from the settlers who wrote diaries and letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights. Considering women’s published writing as an intervention in the public sphere of national and material print culture, this book uses ... Read more

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  • African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction

    Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being

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    African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being is the nexus to scholarship on manifestations of Africanisms in black art and culture, particularly the scant critical works focusing on African metaphysical retentions. This study examines New World African spirituality as a syncretic dynamic of spiritual retentions and transformations that have ... Read more

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  • The Sword and the Pen

    Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena

    by Konrad Eisenbichler ...
    In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the sixteenth century up to the fall of Siena in 1555. Eisenbichler sets forth a complex and original interpretation of the experiences of these three ... Read more

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  • The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872

    by Lyde Cullen Sizer ...
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    This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings ... Read more

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