By Edward O’Rourke
November 15, 2024
This book offers a critical overview of the effects of space, physical and conceptual, in the works of Irish American author Maeve Brennan. Brennan’s writing is now classed amongst the most important of women’s voices in twentieth-century Irish fiction, having undergone a significant reclamation ...
By Pascale Sardin
November 04, 2024
Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays and essays from French to English and was Marguerite Duras’s preferred translator. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious directors and playwrights of the 20th century – Harold Pinter...
By Wendy Whelan-Stewart
September 18, 2024
Rather than rarities, literary depictions of women breastfeeding infants are more common in American literature than recognized. In some cases, readers have dismissed such portrayals as scenic background or strokes of verisimilitude. In other cases, we have failed to register them at all. By ...
By Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
September 13, 2024
Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing...
By Alice Braun
August 21, 2024
This book aims to study the representation of motherhood in self-life writing by English-speaking authors. It highlights the particular issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their vocation as artists with their duties towards their children. For those women who claim their ...
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By Hsu-Ming Teo, Paloma Fresno-Calleja
June 13, 2024
This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists ...
By Brenda Ayres
April 09, 2024
Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Becoming Wollstonecraft will be more fully developed than previous works, with added information that has not ...