This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging......more

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A group of most highly acclaimed Canadian writers and distinguished international experts on Canadian literature discuss......more

Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality’s supposed......more

This book includes the most complete biography to date of Poldowski (Irène Dean Paul née Wieniawska) 1970-1932, the high......more

This book examines why so many students fall behind and analyzes what teachers and schools can do to help them succeed....more

Migration and Creation in Aztec and Maya Literature provides a new perspective on migration and creation episodes in the......more

Excellent short stories The best short fiction ever written by British women is collected in By British Women. This book......more

Excellent short stories The best short fiction ever written by British women is collected in By British Women. This book......more

This book discusses how from their different backgrounds and on different levels, the German philosopher, sociologist an......more

Celebrating more than forty years of creative writing by Chicana author Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, this volume includes cr......more

Celebrating more than forty years of creative writing by Chicana author Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, this volume includes cr......more

The study is a comparative reading of Henry Beissel’s Canadian-German autobiographical long poem. It examines writer’s b......more

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This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of ......more

Science fiction, as a literature of fantasy, goes beyond the mundane to ask the question: what if the world were differe......more

This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers’ responses to India through the novel a......more

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This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a ......more

Can the recovery of women’s contributions to literary culture be compared to a salvage operation? In that case, for what......more

Do you sometimes have the feeling that your brain is going to mush and that your baby is literally sucking the life out ......more

Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens o......more

This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers, in response to the increased a......more

This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers, in response to the increased a......more

How should we understand the bugarrón, a man who has sex with other men while regarding himself as heterosexual? Reachin......more

How should we understand the bugarrón, a man who has sex with other men while regarding himself as heterosexual? Reachin......more

Although Elizabeth Gaskell was influenced by Mary Russell Mitford, and George Eliot by Gaskell, only a small number of s......more

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Mysel......more

Originally published in 1987 and revised in 2004, Compañeras speaks with the voices of Latina lesbians who are puertorri......more

In this brilliant selection of essays--including three new pieces--the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmai......more

In this volume, Lucyna Harmon compares the episodes that constitute the British TV series Agatha Christie’s Poirot with ......more

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A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood’s most recent novels and enduring themes In 2017, the Hulu adaptati......more

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from thr......more

This book looks into the role played by the conditions and legal-policy frameworks in several origin, transit, and host/......more

A powerful collection of early feminist stories from the activist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman created a ......more

Gender has become a commodity. Today’s economy trades in symbols and narratives as much as in objects. As such, gender c......more

Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood takes a critical look at the representations and lived experiences of migrant, refugee, an......more

’Mirza’s theorization of resistance is a substantive addition to feminist and postcolonial scholarship, and her rich rea......more

What Virginia Woolf called ’Childlikeness’ is a facet of Mansfield’s personality which permeates every aspect of her per......more

A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism...more

Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles.......more

’Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel, 1747-1880’ shows the ways in which eighteenth- and......more

"In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers ......more

This book examines the complexities of women’s lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America ......more

With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capita......more

With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capita......more

Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies argues that Victorian sensation novels - long dismissed as plo......more

Parvin E’tesami (1907-1941) is among the few Persian female poets, who has gained nationwide popularity, while her autho......more

Unfinished Austen is a scholarly monograph which examines four texts left incomplete by Jane Austen: Catharine, or the B......more

This book examines the dialectic of ideology and utopia in three novels by James Baldwin....more

This book calls readers to experience radical empathy through fiction by putting women writers of color’s works in conve......more

Literary journalism’s origins can be traced to the nineteenth century, when it developed alongside the era’s sentimental......more

Literary journalism’s origins can be traced to the nineteenth century, when it developed alongside the era’s sentimental......more

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the ......more

Working at the intersection of psychoanalytic, queer, and transgender theories, this book argues for the need to read La......more

Addressing Jean Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit......more

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisc......more

This book analyzes the various ways of coming to terms with the Emmett Till case in US fiction. The critical analysis of......more

Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821 offers a critical look at the......more

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. ......more

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. ......more

First published in 1852, this book provides a comprehensive look at the work of female prose writers in America. Coverin......more

Sarah Green’s fascinating book offers an insider’s view of the private lives and intrigues of the English court. From ro......more

Romanes provides a detailed overview of the life and works of Charlotte Mary Yonge, an influential British writer of the......more

In this thought-provoking work, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps critically examines her own novel, The Gates Ajar, which deals w......more

First published in 1852, this book provides a comprehensive look at the work of female prose writers in America. Coverin......more

In this groundbreaking work of literary criticism, Comstock offers a feminist perspective on Tolstoy’s controversial mas......more

In this fascinating study, Overton examines the lives and works of 25 of the most influential female novelists of the 20......more

In this thought-provoking work, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps critically examines her own novel, The Gates Ajar, which deals w......more

Sarah Green’s fascinating book offers an insider’s view of the private lives and intrigues of the English court. From ro......more

"With a thoughtful introduction by Mikki Kendall, it will remind you why she was loved, honored, challenged and respecte......more

Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the exper......more

This book represents a unique visualisation of the world of Irish writer John McGahern through his words and the imagery......more

Comprehensive presentation of Jacques Rancière’s thought on relations between politics and literature in the context of ......more