1,159円 Novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights. It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by Charlotte that led her and her sisters to publish a joint collection of their poetry in 1846, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. To evade contemporary prejudice again...

827円 Virginia Woolf was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dallo...

1,157円 Table of Contents - The American The Turn of the Screw The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 The Wings of the Dove, Volume 2 of 2 Daisy Miller The Ambassadors The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) What Maisie Knew The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story in which the question ...

235円 New wife and mother Julie is a woman struggling to find her place. Her dilemmas while modest feel harsh and reflect the ways in which women were once denied control over their own bodies. Her first steps toward independence bring great painand not only to herself. With sparing incisive prose Cynt...

235円 Marta is a human resources employee at a grocery store chain. She moves through life passively, always taking the path of least resistance. That is, until one day at work, when she is confronted by an ethical dilemma: A hijab-wearing woman. A strict no-hats policy. And then a cultural opportunity...

3,337円 What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends dee...

1,159円 Kate Chopin’s major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Her important short stories included "Desiree's Baby", a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893), "The Story of an Hour" (1894), and "The ...

7,345円 The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance mediaーstand-up comedy, movies, television, an...

3,317円 Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women’s biological ability to “reproduce the nation” they are participating in a eugenic projectーsanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United State...

5,432円 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 r...

4,371円 This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of li...

5,305円 First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Cora...