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This thought-provoking book delineates how fiction developed from Dickens's intensely Christological worldview to Gissing's self-deceptive and pessimistic humanism, from Collins's and Gaskell's patholo-gized womanhood to Hardy's intellectual wasteland where there is no room for redemption and moral rebirth. Victorian Disharmonies provides a fresh account of crucial fictional texts of the age, while its lively presentation of the literary scene will prove stimulating to readers interested in the history of Victorianism as a paradigmatic phenomenon of British culture. --Book Jacket.
Emily Carr (1871-1945) , a Canadian artist, was one of the most renowned women for her time for her paintings of indigenous Canadian subjects and the spectacular Pacific coastal areas of British Columbia. Less is known, however, of her career as a writer, on which she embarked in later life when ill-health made writing difficult. The three books she published in her lifetime, and which are examined in this volume, were enormously popular with both critics and public, and she received the Governor-General`s Award for General Literature in 1942. This book fills a gap in the scholarship around this greatly admired artist.
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This book examines the life and work of the eighteenth-century scientist, philosopher and feminist, Madame du Chatelet.
Sand, George [1804-1876].
Covers the period from the English Renaissance and Reformation to contemporary debates over women's ministries and the construction of a feminist theology. Divided chronologically and topically. Annotations are short but instructive. --FEMINIST COLLECTIONS ...a valuable and informative resource for academic libraries supporting humanities and social science collections and programs in religious and women's studies. Browsing this bibliography is a good way for students to make connections between religious, social, and cultural topics. --ARBA
Although her literary output was small, Louise Labe's reputation is great. Her name is associated with the literary and intellectual forces in Lyons in the 16th century and with that of the growing role of women in society. Her poetry appealed to late Elizabethan England, and a translation of her work by Robert Greene was published in 1584 and again in 1587, 1593 and 1604. Is her celebrity to be attributed to the fact that she was a woman? Was she an intellectual, or a courtesan, or both? What is it that enables her work to trascend the changing tastes of the centuries? This volume explores these questions in depth and provides a most readable account of the life and work of this fascinating poet.
Elizabeth I is probably the most famous English woman ever to have lived. She has been celebrated as a great stateswoman, during whose reign England acquired some degree of security in the troubled European arena and at the same time began to lay the foundations for its future empire. She presided over a country undergoing a cultural renaissance previously unimagined. By the time of her death at the age of seventy in 1603, she was being heralded as rival to the Virgin Mary, as a second Queen of Earth and Heaven, as a woman more than mortal women. She has provided subject-matter for innumerable books: seventy biographies have appeared since 1890 and it is impossible to list the enormous numbe...