Critical approaches to literature : feminist / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism in literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Social aspects.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 329 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

This book discusses one of the most important theoretical approaches of modern times: feminism. Covering material from the Renaissance to the present day, this volume explores feminist works in a variety of genres, including novels, dramas, short stories, poems, and films.

Contents:

The feminism of Renaissance love poetry / Robert C. Evans

Imag(in)ing the female reader: The Lady's Magazine in the new republic / Karen E. Rowe

Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century and American literary history / Brian Yothers

Linda Loman and cognitive psychology in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman / Robert C. Evans

Rebel daughters: Margaret Walker and Muriel Rukeyser / Julia Lisella

The body of Sextus in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece / Fran Teague and Nathan P. Gilmour

Killing Desdemona: possible feminist responses to the death scene in Shakespeare's Othello / Robert C. Evans

Body and text in early epistolary fiction, culminating in Richardson's Pamela / Joyce Kelley

"Make savings, not children": Malthus and population control in Emma and Mansfield Park / Sarah Fredericks

Christina Rossetti as a "feminist" poet / Christie Deuter

Feminism in Kate Chopin's "flash fiction" / Caitlin Celka

Genevieve Taggard's socialist feminist interventions in lyric making / Julia Lisella

Women and "feminism" in Zora Neale Thurston's "The Gilded Six Bits" / Christina M. Garner

A war story of one's own : Katherine Anne Porter's re-envisioning of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms / Michael E. Kaufmann

Telling it like it was: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook as a protofeminist text / Nicolas Tredell

Failed stories of rewriting and revision in Samdra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories / Anne McGee

The thirtysometing wives' tale: Zadie Smith's NW as a post-feminist text / Nicolas Tredell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Gale Virtual Reference Library, viewed June 10, 2019).

ISBN:

9781682175781

1682175782

OCLC:

1029561146