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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825887803321

Titolo

Women writing and writing about women / / edited by Mary Jacobus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-32166-7

1-283-58698-3

9786613899439

0-203-12051-5

1-136-32167-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; ; v. 7

Disciplina

809.89287

809.933522

809/.89287

Soggetti

Women and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally delivered as lectures at Oxford during the summer of 1978 under the general heading 'Women and literature'"--Preface.

First published in 1979 by Croom Helm.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; New: Women Writing and Writing about Women; New: Copyright Page; Old: Women Writing and Writing about Women; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; The Difference of View: Mary Jacobus; 1. Towards a Feminist Poetics: Elaine Showalter; 2. The Buried Letter: Feminism and Romanticism in Villette: Mary Jacobus; 3. The Indefinite Disclosed: Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson Cora Kaplan; 4. Beyond Determinism: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf: Gillian Beer; 5. Sue Bridehead and the New Woman: John Goode; 6. Ibsen and the Language of Women: Inga-Stina Ewbank

7. Poetry and Conscience: Russian Women Poets of the Twentieth Century: Elaine Feinstein8. Writing as a Woman: Anne Stevenson; 9. Feminism, Film and the Avant-garde: Laura Mulvey; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women. Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise



some of the problems of theory and practice posed by writing as a woman and by women's representation in literature. The subjects of individual essays range from the nineteenth and twentieth century novel to avant-garde film, and from Victorian women poets to Russian women poets of today. Drawing on discipli