Author: Juliet Shields
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009003054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.
Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Juliet Shields
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009003054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009003054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.
The Land of Story-books
Author: Sarah Dunnigan
Publisher: Occasional Papers
ISBN: 9781908980298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of nineteenth-century Scottish children's literature. As well as much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores how women writers shaped Scottish children's literature, the contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition.
Publisher: Occasional Papers
ISBN: 9781908980298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of nineteenth-century Scottish children's literature. As well as much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores how women writers shaped Scottish children's literature, the contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition.
Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Alison Finch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521631860
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521631860
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France.
A History of Scottish Women's Writing
Author: Douglas Gifford
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
History of Scottish Women's Writing
Author: Douglas Gifford
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748672664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748672664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing
Author: Glenda Norquay
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748664807
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which Scottish women lived and wrote.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748664807
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which Scottish women lived and wrote.
Gendered Ecologies
Author: Dewey W. Hall
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1949979059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Gendered Ecologies considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects, featuring observations by women writers as recorded in texts. The edition presents a case for transnational women writers, participating in the discourse of natural philosophy from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1949979059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Gendered Ecologies considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects, featuring observations by women writers as recorded in texts. The edition presents a case for transnational women writers, participating in the discourse of natural philosophy from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries.
A Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Gerard Carruthers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119651441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119651441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing
Author: Lesa Scholl
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030783189
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1753
Book Description
Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030783189
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1753
Book Description
Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany
Author: Linda Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316512843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316512843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.