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The Resisting Reader

A Feminist Approach to American Fiction

By: Judith Fetterley

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The Resisting Reader

A Feminist Approach to American Fiction

By: Judith Fetterley

Fetterley's questions are often so crucial, her observations repeatedly so acute, that they force us to ask how we avoided them in the past." -- Women's Studies International Quarterly ..". thoughtful, informed, and well written." -- Choice

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Indiana University Press

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0253310784

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The Resisting Reader

A Feminist Approach to American Fiction

By: Judith Fetterley

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A Feminist Approach to American Fiction

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Writing Out of Place

Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture

By: Judith Fetterley,Marjorie Pryse

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Writing Out of Place

Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture

By: Judith Fetterley,Marjorie Pryse

In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sui Sin Far, and Mary Austin critique the approach to regional subjects characteristic of local color and present narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. In their approach to these writers, Fetterley and Pryse offer contemporary readers an alternative vantage point from which to consider questions of regions and regionalism in the global economy of our own time."--Jacket.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252027671

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9780252027673

Gender Studies

New Directions in Feminist Criticism

By: Judith Spector

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Gender Studies

New Directions in Feminist Criticism

By: Judith Spector

The essays in Gender Studies explore relationships between gender and creativity, identity, and genre within the context of literary analysis. Some of the essays are psychoanalytic in approach in that they seek to discover the sexual dynamic/s involved in the creation of literature as an art form. Still others attempt to isolate and examine the sexual attitudes inherent in the works of particular authors or genres, or to determine how writers explore the sensibilities of each gender.

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Popular Press

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0879723521

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Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860

By: Judith Lowder Newton

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Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860

By: Judith Lowder Newton

First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed idea of "women’s proper sphere". This concept disguised inequities between men and women, first by asserting the reality of female power, and then by restricting it to self-sacrificing influence. In this book, Judith Newton analyses novels such as Fanny Burney’s Evelina, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss in order to demonstrate how some female writers reacted to the issue by covertly resisting inequities of power and reconciling ideologies in their art. She argues that in this time period, novels became increasingly rebellious as well as ambivalent . Heroines were endowed with power, and emphasis was given to female ability, rather than to feminine influence.

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Routledge

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1136193995

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Reading Edith Wharton Through a Darwinian Lens

Evolutionary Biological Issues in Her Fiction

By: Judith P. Saunders

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Reading Edith Wharton Through a Darwinian Lens

Evolutionary Biological Issues in Her Fiction

By: Judith P. Saunders

Beneath the polished surface of the genteel environments delineated in Wharton's fiction, characters are competing fiercely for desirable mates, questing for social status and resources, and plotting ruthlessly to advance their relatives' fortunes in life. This book identifies these and other evolutionary issues central to her fiction, demonstrating their significance in terms of character, setting, plot, and theme. Connections to existing Wharton criticism are made throughout the book, so that readers can see how an evolutionary perspective enriches, refutes, or reconfigures insights derived from other critical approaches.

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McFarland

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0786453656

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9780786453658

Snow on the Cane Fields

Women's Writing and Creole Subjectivity

By: Judith L. Raiskin

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Snow on the Cane Fields

Women's Writing and Creole Subjectivity

By: Judith L. Raiskin

Snow on the Cane Fields was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In a probing analysis of creole women's writing over the past century, Judith Raiskin explores the workings and influence of cultural and linguistic colonialism. Tracing the transnational and racial meanings of creole identity, Raiskin looks at four English-speaking writers from South Africa and the Caribbean: Olive Schreiner, Jean Rhys, Michelle Cliff, and Zoë Wicomb. She examines their work in light of the discourses of their times: nineteenth-century "race science" and imperialistic rhetoric, turn-of-the-century anti-Semitic sentiment and feminist pacifism, postcolonial theory, and apartheid legislation. In their writing and in their multiple identities, these women highlight the gendered nature of race, citizenship, culture, and the language of literature. Raiskin shows how each writer expresses her particular ambivalences and divided loyalties, both enforcing and challenging the proprietary British perspective on colonial history, culture, and language. A new perspective on four writers and their uneasy places in colonial culture, Snow on the Cane Fields reveals the value of pursuing a feminist approach to questions of national, political, and racial identity. Judith Raiskin is assistant professor of women's studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816623015

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Starting Over

Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique

By: Judith Newton

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Starting Over

Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique

By: Judith Newton

For more than a decade Judith Newton has been at the forefront of defining and promoting materialist feminist criticism. Starting Over brings together a selection of her essays that chart the establishment of feminist literary criticism in the academy and its relation to other forms of cultural criticism, including Marxist, post-Marxist, new historicist, and cultural materialist approaches, as well as cultural studies. The essays in Starting Over have functioned as exemplars of interdisciplinary thinking, mapping out the ways in which reading strategies and the constructions of history, culture, identity, change, and agency in various materialist theories overlap, and the ways in which feminist-materialist work both draws upon, revises, and complicates the vision of nonfeminist materialist critiques. They are shaped by an awareness that public knowledge is always informed by the so-called private realm of familial and sexual relations and that cultural criticism must bring together investigations of daily behaviors, economic and social relations, and the dynamics of race, class, gender, and sexual struggle. Starting Over is a brilliant synthesis of literature, history, anthropology, the many influential trends in contemporary theory, and the politics of feminism.

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University of Michigan Press

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047202938X

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9780472029389

Gender and the Victorian Periodical

By: Hilary Fraser,Judith Johnston,Stephanie Green

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Gender and the Victorian Periodical

By: Hilary Fraser,Judith Johnston,Stephanie Green

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Cambridge University Press

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0521830729

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9780521830720

Thackeray’s Skeptical Narrative and the ‘Perilous Trade’ of Authorship

By: Judith L. Fisher

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Thackeray’s Skeptical Narrative and the ‘Perilous Trade’ of Authorship

By: Judith L. Fisher

Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of Authorship makes a substantial contribution to nineteenth-century reading practices, as well as narratology in general. Judith Fisher combines in this study rhetorical and ethical analysis of Thackeray's narrative techniques to trace how his fiction develops to educate his reader into what she terms a "hermeneutic of skepticism." This is a kind of poised reading which enables his readers to integrate his fiction into their life in what Thackeray called "a world without God" without becoming pessimistic or fatalistic. Although Thackeray's narrative strategies have been the subject of study, most have focused on Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond only, and none look as closely as does this study at actual rhetorical techniques such as his use of pronominalization to interpolate the reader into his skeptical discourse. Fisher also brings her analysis to bear on The Adventures of Philip and The Virginians, Thackeray's last two complete novels, both of which were critical failures even as contemporary critics acknowledged their stylistic excellence. This is the first study to attempt to understand the puzzle of those two books; Fisher recovers them from their marginalized position in Thackeray's oeuvre. Fisher expertly weaves an accessible narrative theory with thoroughgoing knowledge of Thackeray's life in an integrated reading of his entire works. Reading Thackeray holistically in spite of his own disruptive practices, she does full justice to his critical skepticism while elucidating his canon for a new readership.

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Routledge

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1351895397

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9781351895392

The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain

Native American Mill Worker

By: Judith A. Ranta

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The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain

Native American Mill Worker

By: Judith A. Ranta

Collects for the first time the fiction and other prose of a Native American woman who worked in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills.

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Upne

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1555535658

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Writing Out of Place

Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture

By: Judith Fetterley,Marjorie Pryse

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Writing Out of Place

Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture

By: Judith Fetterley,Marjorie Pryse

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University of Illinois Press

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Judith Krantz

By: Judith Krantz

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Judith Krantz

By: Judith Krantz

Three novels, Mistral's Daughter, Princess Daisy, and I'll Take Manhattan, by the best-selling author are gathered in one volume.

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0517101807

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The Resisting Reader

The Resisting Reader

The Resisting Reader

The Resisting Reader

Writing Out of Place

Writing Out of Place

Gender Studies

Gender Studies

Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

Reading Edith Wharton Through a Darwinian Lens

Reading Edith Wharton Through a Darwinian Lens

Snow on the Cane Fields

Snow on the Cane Fields

Starting Over

Starting Over

Gender and the Victorian Periodical

Gender and the Victorian Periodical

Thackeray’s Skeptical Narrative and the ‘Perilous Trade’ of Authorship

Thackeray’s Skeptical Narrative and the ‘Perilous Trade’ of Authorship

The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain

The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain

Writing Out of Place

Writing Out of Place

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Judith Krantz

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