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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784553203321

Autore

Erkkila Betsy <1944->

Titolo

The wicked sisters [[electronic resource] ] : women poets, literary history, and discord / / Betsy Erkkila

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992

ISBN

0-19-772684-4

1-280-44125-9

0-19-534495-2

1-4237-6460-9

1-60256-614-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

811.009

Soggetti

American poetry - Women authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc

English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Feminist poetry, American - History and criticism

Feminist poetry, English - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - English-speaking countries

Women and literature - English-speaking countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; 1. Rethinking Women's Literary History; 2. Emily Dickinson and the Wicked Sisters; The Magic Circle; ""Satan, or Sue""; Sisterhood and Difference; Placing Dickinson in History; 3. Dickinson, Women Writers, and the Marketplace; Literary Sisterhood: The Brontèˆ Sisters; ""Tomes of Solid Witchcraft"": Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Superior Women: George Eliot; Going to Market: Helen Hunt Jackson; 4. Differences That Kill: Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore; Gender and Modernism; The Dynamics of Influence; ""Can't They See How Different It Is?""; Witchcraft

""Driving to the Interior""""You Are an Elizabeth""; 5. Adrienne Rich, Emily Dickinson, and the Limits of Sisterhood; Breaking the Mold; Feminism and Poetry; Lesbian Feminist Politics and Poetics; Dickinson as Other; ""What Chou Mean WE, White Girl?""; 6. Race, Black Women Writing, and Gwendolyn Brooks; Making Herself a Tradition; Black



Blueswomen; Poetry and Black Motherhood; Words as Weapons; Black Power; ""There Will Be Differences""; ""Who Said It Was Simple""; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y