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Katherine Mansfield’s complicated relationship with London began in 1903, when her parents sent her and her two older si......more

This monograph explores female agency in Moroccan postcolonial literature through the works of Fatima Mernissi, Leila Ab......more

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long eigh......more

Author and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather’s adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best boo......more

An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professo......more

In this daring study, Amy De’Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by ca......more

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An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora Gr......more

From Peter Rabbit to Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, The Tailor of Gloucester to The Fairy Caravan, the works and characters of Beatr......more

Employing the use of trauma theory, Rachel Scoggins uncovers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spiritualit......more

In Karen Blixen’s Search for Self, Patti M. Marxsen presents a twenty-first-century reconsideration of Blixen’s iconic m......more

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers’ life writing Paper Heroines, Mollie Barnes studie......more

Ancient Greece was rich with stories of queer love and genderfluid identity--but what can these ancient stories tell us ......more

A USA Today Bestseller "This absorbing biography, written with both affection and admiration, shows Babb as one of the m......more

Focusing on the first nineteen years of Katherine Mansfield’s life, from her birth in 1888 to her arrival in London in 1......more

Virginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf’s engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing ......more

Reading Modernism’s Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernis......more

The first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and ......more

From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring "your favor......more

An atmospheric rumination on gendered violence, cosmic collapse, and colonialism. From deep inside a black hole, comes N......more

Women (Re)Writing Illness as Her Own illuminates ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spa......more

Repositioning women writers of the American West as formative to Jewish literature. Blending history, collective biograp......more

Repositioning women writers of the American West as formative to Jewish literature. Blending history, collective biograp......more

"Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp. Jeanette Winterson and Shahrazad are the perfect co-pilots to take us into new ......more

The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swell......more

First published in 1982, D. H. Lawrence and Feminism discusses Lawrence’s work by examining it in relation to aspects of......more

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women’s profession......more

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"She’s accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read... She is a poet to live with." -......more

Using the example of Marcel Proust’s character Albertine, this book argues that the trope of the disappeared woman stems......more

’This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest ......more

’I knew at once I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuri......more

A nuanced and complex portrayal of female voices which have long been silenced, offering a fresh perspective on the hist......more

Queer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of ......more

Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inex......more

With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby pr......more

Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers - Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Mo......more

In this volume, the authors adopt an intersectional methodology to question Italian "white innocence" and to examine the......more

Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing resituates sublimation as an unfinished Freudian conc......more

The book provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. Stretchin......more

The book provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. Stretchin......more

Essays by feminist scholars of German Studies looking at how women-particularly women of color-have put their anger to u......more

This book traces the development of Pushkin’s heroines from his youthful Southern Poems to his last published work The C......more

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing equip......more

Known for her short stories populated by a recurring cast of headstrong, honest, and sometimes outrageous Southern women......more

Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970 is an exploration of a number of Sout......more

Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970 is an exploration of a number of Sout......more

"The Myth of George Eliot" shows how Marian Evans understood the power of collective stories to change society, and sugg......more

CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE FINALIST, THE RANDY SHILTS AWARD FOR GAY NONFICTION, THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARDS A......more

Demonstrates how women’s writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the Romantic......more

Vegan literary studies has been crystallised over the past few years as a dynamic new specialism, with a transhistorical......more

This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of th......more

This book offers the most extensive contextual analysis to date of women’s work in the Devonshire Manuscript as part of ......more

This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and cre......more

In the shadowed mists of medieval Northern Europe, where the whispers of ancient Scandinavian legends echo through time,......more

What do women want to read? Jean Donneau de Visé, the founder and editor in chief of Le Mercure Galant, one of France’s ......more

Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrap......more

First published in 1972 Five for Freedom is a candid study of five European fictional heroines as anticipatory of contem......more

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender examines the depictions of men, women and masculinities in Nig......more

"A veritable smorgasbord for fans of Austen, as artists, poets, literary critics and writers come together to explore wh......more

A keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath In The Slicks, Magg......more

Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction is the first sustained critical analysis of the representation of ......more

Tres temas convergentes interesan a este estudio: las mujeres, sus vidas en la frontera y sus escrituras autobiográficas......more

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A quietly powerful exploration of memory and forgetting, from one of France’s leading feminist public intellectuals In 2......more

Italy and American Female Imagination is the first study to trace the significance of Italy-both the physical place and ......more

The book covers Polish literature from Romanticism to the present day to thoroughly rethink the Polish literary studies ......more

This book includes analyses of twenty-first century literature about the Holocaust. The international scholars highlight......more

’I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.’ One of the most d......more

An experimental work of creative non-fiction that challenges art history, confronts colonial ableism, and reclaims a sto......more

Narrating Multiplicities in Motion brings together a dynamic collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore storyte......more

Situated in Practical Theology, the book contributes to academic scholarship in Ecumenical Diakonia Studies and African ......more