Gender and Genre in Literature
In Her Own Voice: Nineteenth-Century American Women Essayists
1st Edition
By Sherry L. Linkon
April 17, 2019
In Her Own Voice examines the literary history of women’s nonfiction writing through studies of individual writers, their works, and their careers. The essays in this collection consider the development of women’s public voices, relationships between women essayists and their editors and readers....
AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven F. Kruger, Steven F. Kruger
August 26, 2016
This is the first book-length study of the rich fiction that has emerged from the AIDS crisis. Examining first the ways in which scientific discourse on AIDS has reflected ideologies of gender and sexuality-such as the construction of AIDS as a disease of gay men, part of a battle over masculinity...
Fiction by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: A New England Sampler
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas A. Maik
June 01, 1999
In an era following the Civil War which saw change and transformation everywhere, new magazines emerged to record and report the change. Responding to the call for material to fill their pages, writers in regions such as New England, the West, and the South answered, most often with short stories. ...
Female Heroism in the Pastoral
1st Edition
Edited
By Gail David
March 01, 1991
The past decade has given us explorations of such forms as the Bildungsroman, the Kunstleroman, the utopian and Gothic novel as women have written them; studies are even now emerging of the female-authored elegy, sonnet sequence and other pure and mixed poetic modes. Women’s work in non-fiction ...