| Description |
x, 371 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Feminist aesthetics and the new realism / Laura Marcus --Walking, women and writing: Virginia Woolf as flaneuse / Rachel Bowlby --Happy families? Feminist reproduction and matrilineal thought / Linda R. Williams -- An other space: a future for feminism? / Jane Moore --Releasing possibility into form: cultural choice and the woman writer / Carol Watts -- Fakes and femininity: Vita Sackville-West and her mother / Suzanne Raitt -- The dangers of Angela Carter / Elaine Jordan -- Love, mourning and metaphor: terms of identity / Kadiatu Kanneh -- Why the Lady's eyes are nothing like the sun / Lorna Hutson -- Unsilent instruments and the devil's cushions: authority in seventeenth-century women's prophetic discourse / Sue Wiseman. |
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Getting down to basics: art, obscenity and the female nude / Lynda Nead -- Do or die: problems of agency and gender in the aesthetics of murder / Josephine McDonagh -- The politics of focus: feminism and photography theory / Lindsay Smith -- The hand of the huntress: repetition and Malory's Morte Darthur / Catherine LaFarge -- New hystericism: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: the body, the text and the feminist critic / Ros Ballaster -- The great distinction: figures of the exotic in the work of William Hodges / Harriet Guest -- Because men made the laws': the fallen woman and the woman poet / Angela Leighton. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain.
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Feminist criticism -- Great Britain.
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Sex role in literature.
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| Added Author |
Armstrong, Isobel.
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| ISBN |
0415067413 (pbk.) |
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0415067405 |
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