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The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English
Sage, Lorna1999
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Arranged in alphabetical order, this book offers a guide to women writers, major titles, movements and genres from medieval times to the present. This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely project, when so much writing has been rediscovered, reclaimed and republished. There are entries on writers, on individual texts, and on general terms, genres and movements, all printed in a single alphabetical sequence. The earliest written documents in medieval English (the visionary writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) are covered in an historical - and geographical - sweep that takes us up to the present day. The book reflects the spread of literacy, the history of colonisation and the development of post-colonial cultures using and changing the English language. The entries are written by contributors from all the countries covered. The result is a work of reference with a unique feeling for the vitality, wealth and diversity of women's writing.
Main title:
The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English / Lorna Sage ; advisory editors, Germaine Greer, Elaine Showalter.
Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Collation:
viii, 696p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780521668132 (pbk)9780521495257 (hbk)
Dewey class:
820.9928703820.9928
LC class:
PR111
Language:
English
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Subject:
English literature -- Women authors -- DictionariesWomen and literature -- English-speaking countries -- DictionariesWomen and literature -- Great Britain -- DictionariesLiteratureEnglishLiterary studies: generalLiterature: history & criticismLiterary reference worksGender studies, gender groupsGender studies: women & girlsRenaissance style
BRN:
1017738