Silences / Tillie Olsen ; introduction by Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsen, Tillie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Women authors.

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Authorship--Sex differences.

Authorship.

Women and literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-2018 (former owner) (Libra copy)

Physical Description:

xlii, 320 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition, first Feminist Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2003.

Summary:

First published in 1978, Silences single-handedly revolutionized the literary canon. In this classic work, now back in print, Olsen broke open the study of literature and discovered a lost continent -- the writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries we learn the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class and race, can be silenced. Olsen recounts the torments of Melville, the crushing weight of criticism on Thomas Hardy, the shame that brought Willa Cather to a dead halt, and struggles of Virginia Woolf, Olsen's heroine and greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that would silence her. This 25th-anniversary edition includes Olsen's now infamous reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction and author preface.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiii-xlii) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Libra copy presented to the Penn Libraries by the Family of Dr. Yoonmee Chang.

ISBN:

1558614419

9781558614413

1558614400

9781558614406

OCLC:

51289888

Online:

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