Womanhood in Anglophone literary culture nineteenth and twentieth century perspectives / [electronic resource] : edited by Robin Hammerman. - Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars, 2007. - xvii, 372 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references.

Cabinets of the curious: readers in the nineteenth century American archive and the search for a story-like life / Women's history, women's empowerment: Lydia Maria Child's Ladies Family Library Series / Cinderella revisited: women writers and the stepfamily / The hidden harlot: alternative ideals of womanhood in nineteenth century women's fiction / Victorian women poets and the art of collaboration / "That idyl of the June, that girls' gospel" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Browning's Aurora Leigh / Cuban femininity and national unity in Louisa May Alcott's moods and Elizabeth Stoddard's "Eros and Anteros" / Bad girls of the VAD: World War I fallen women in the forbidden zone / Modernism, maternity, and the radical women poet / Riders of the new wave: the feminist science fiction of Le Guin,Russ, and Tiptree / Embodying the muse, opening pandora's box: Post-Modern counter narratives of female creativity and community / Sacred frontiers: looking for fissures to construct an alternate feminist subjectivity in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood / Who I be I grow up / here? : literary recuperations of Harlem's streets / Womb fiction: late twentieth century challenges to the woman as womb paradigm / Zoe Trodd -- Susan Toth Lord -- Christine Poulson -- Susan Cruea -- Susan Soroka -- Becky Wingard Lewis -- Nina Bannett -- Jennifer Shaddock -- Julia Lisella -- Alayne Peterson -- Jennifer E. Dunn -- Diya Abdo -- Alison Perry -- Natalie Wilson.


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Women in literature.
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Women and literature--English-speaking countries.


Electronic books.

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