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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America

    by Peter Betjemann, Sari Edelstein, Catherine J. Golden, Brady Harrison, Denise D. Knight, Gary Scharnhorst, William C. Snyder, Jennifer S. Tuttle ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and placeCharlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman’s place on its ear, this finely crafted essay ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    by L. M. MONTGOMERY ...
    The story follows the life of Valancy Stirling, a young woman who lives an uneventful and constrained life with her overbearing family in the fictional Canadian town of Deerwood. Upon receiving life-altering news, Valancy decides to break free from societal expectations and embarks on a journey of self-discovery, finding love, happiness, and fulfillment in unexpected ways.Unlike Montgomery's more ... Read more

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  • The Age of Innocence - Unabridged

    by Edith Wharton ...
    "The Age of Innocence" is considered by many critics to be author Edith Wharton's masterpiece. When it was published in 1920, it was received with rapturous reviews and earned Wharton the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making her the first woman in history to receive this honor.Set amid the aristocracy of New York City in the early part of the 20th century - a world with which Wharton was deeply ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Vita Sackville-West

    Selected Writings

    by Vita Sackville-West ...
    Selected writings from the British author and gardener's diaries, memoirs, letters, travel writing, criticism, poetry, fiction, and more."An invaluable resource. Vita crossed many continents, literal and metaphoric, but she always brought home treasure." —Margaret Reynolds, editor of The Sappho Companion and Victorian Women Poets: An AnthologyAristocrat, novelist, essay... ... Read more

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  • The Friendly Jane Austen

    A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility

    by Natalie Tyler, Reid Boates, Jon Winokur ...
    What's so friendly about Jane Austen?Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed enthusiasm for her timeless novels. In recent years, Austen has become more popular than ever as nearly every one of her books has been gorgeously filmed and reinterpreted to reflect today's sensibilities. Both diehard Austen addicts and new converts to the cult will find endless revelations and witty ... Read more

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  • I Love You When I'm Drunk

    by Empar Moliner, Peter Bush (translator) ...
    Fast, precise, hilariously timed and mercilessly honest, the stories of Empar Moliner lay bare every pretension ever to have offered comfort to the middle class psyche. From the zeal of a mothers' group staging a world record breastfeeding attempt to couples role-playing their way into parenthood at a third world ‘adoption workshop’, every well-meaning fad and right-on gesture is brilliantly ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

    Edited by Ellen Rooney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the ... Read more

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  • Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013

    by Robert Thacker ...
    In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, ending with encompassing afterword, this collection provides a selection of essays and reviews that reflect their ... Read more

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  • Gondal's Queen

    A Novel in Verse

    by Emily Jane Brontë ...
    In Gondal’s Queen, Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford presents a cycle of eighty-four poems by Emily Jane Brontë, for the first time arranged in logical sequence, to re-create the “novel in verse” which Emily wrote about their beloved mystical kingdom of Gondal and its ruler, Augusta Geraldine Almeda, who brought tragedy to those who loved her. Thanks to previous publications by Ratchford, the imaginative ... Read more

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  • The Self and It

    Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England

    by Julie Park ...
    Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human—dolls, automata, puppets—proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned the experience of life into a narrated object of psychological plausibility. Park makes a bold intervention in histories of the rise of the novel ... Read more

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  • Hitting A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

    Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston

    by Dr. Susan E Meisenhelder ...
    Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick examines the ways Zora Neale Hurston circumvented the constraints of the white publishing world and a predominantly white readership to critique white culture and its effects on the black community. A number of critics have concluded that Hurston simply capitulated to external demands, writing stories white people wanted to hear. Susan Edwards ... Read more

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  • Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler

    Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires

    by Gregory Jerome Hampton ...
    Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butler's fiction in several fields of study including American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies. This book attempts to avoid excluding as many readers as possible by evading esoteric jargon while still engaging the interdisciplinary discourses that respond ... Read more

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