A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

by Shari, Benstock, Susanne Woods, Suzanne Ferriss

Book Overview

A Handbook of Literary Feminisms brings together for the first time two distinct threads of literary feminism: literary history and feminist criticism and theory. The first section of the book offers a history of women's contributions to Anglo-American literature over the past 500 years. It charts the social, cultural, and historical conditions that both shaped women's writing and prevented it from being recognized or valued by literary history. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195102061
• ISBN13: 9780195102062
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"