Approaches to the Anglo and American female epic, 1621-1982 / edited by Bernard Schweizer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

Epic literature, English--History and criticism.

Epic literature, English.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Epic literature, American--History and criticism.

Epic literature, American.

Women and literature--English-speaking countries.

Women and literature.

American literature--Women authors.

English-speaking countries.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]

Contents:

Romancing the epic : Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and literary traditions / Sheila Cavanagh

Female heroic action in Frances Burney's Camilla / Elizabeth Kraft

Virginia Woolf and the modern epic / Karla Alwes

Epic form and (re)vision in Rebecca West's Black lamb and grey falcon / Bernard Schweizer

Gendering Telemachus : Anna Seward and the epic rewriting of Fénelon's Télémaque / Adeline Johns-Putra

The female epic and the journey toward self-definition in Mary Tighe's Psyche / Debnita Chakravarti

"Hear the voice of the (female) bard" : Aurora Leigh as a female romantic epic / Peggy Dunn Bailey

The daughters of Penelope : tradition and innovation in American epics by women / Alan Jalowitz

Revisionary postwar heroism in Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Jenny Goodman

Against the fathers' amnesia : Sharon Doubiago, Hard country, and women's epic / Jeremy M. Downes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-224) and index.

ISBN:

0754654869

OCLC:

61694730