Feminist Literature & Theory

Providing all the tools for engaged, informed individual analysis of the text, this is an essential starting point for students of American literature and women's writing, or for anyone fascinated by Chopin's controversial work...

A bold and revealing book which looks with fresh vision at feminist political writing. Maria Lauret developes a new definition of the genre and illuminates the profound influence and importance of African-American women's writing...

Bringing together ecofeminism and ecological literary criticism (ecocriticism), this book presents diverse ways of understanding and responding to the tangled relationships between the personal, social, and environmental dimensions of human experience and expression...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This essential guide contributes to the understanding of Wollstonecraft's role in the development of the women's movement and explores her argument in its historical context...

This essential guide contributes to the understanding of Wollstonecraft's role in the development of the women's movement and explores her argument in its historical context...

This book explores cultural representations of motherhood in Europe and considers how they affect how motherhood is negotiated as both institution and lived experience. It focuses on literature, and also includes essays on representations in philosophy, art, social policy, TV, and film. It expands h..

This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered..

This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered..

This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the turn-of-the-century New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within and across a wide range of national frameworks. Individual chapters by international scholars scrutinize the flow of ideas, images, and textual parameters of..

Through a reading of the texts of Lyly, Raleigh, Chapman, Spenser and Shakespeare, Berry explores the themes of sexuality and politics, classical myth and Neopatonic mysticism which became associated with Elizabeth I...

Through a reading of key texts by Lyly, Raleigh, Chapman, Shakespeare and Spenser, Berry explores the themes of sexuality and politics, classical myth and Neo-Platonic mysticism which became associated with Elizabeth I...