Masterpieces of women's literature / edited by Frank N. Magill.
Masterpieces of Women's Literature features critical summaries and descriptions of the greatest works of literature by women authors. All the important facts and dates of authorship, along with analyses of characters, settings, themes, and plots, are included for works in every genre, including autobiographies, novels, poetry, plays, essays, and short stories. Containing works by women of all eras and backgrounds, this book covers everything from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Alice Walker's The Color Purple, as well as works by many lesser-known writers. The most in-depth reference of its kind, Masterpieces of Women's Literature is an indispensable guide for students and anyone interested in women's voices, throughout history as well as today.
Item details
- ISBN: 006270138X
- ISBN: 9780062701381
- Physical Description: xi, 594 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, c1996.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Jane Addams -- Louisa May Alcott -- Maya Angelou -- Susan B. Anthony -- Suzanne Arms -- Harriette Simpson Arnow -- Margaret Atwood -- Nina Auerbach -- Jane Austen -- Lois W. Banner -- Mary Ritter Beard -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Aphra Behn -- Anne Beardstreet -- Charlotte Bronte -- Emily Bronte -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Rita Mae Brown -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Susan Brownmiller -- Fanny Burney -- Caroline Walker Bynum -- Rachel Carson -- Angela Carter -- Willa Cather -- Kim Chernin -- Phyllis Chesler -- Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Kate Chopin -- Christine de Pizan -- Caryl Churchill -- Colette -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Mary Daly -- Angela Davis -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Marie de France -- Emily Dickinson -- Joan Didion -- Anne Dillard -- Isak Dinesen -- Dorothy Dinnerstein -- Daphne Du Maurier -- Marguerite Duras -- Andrea Dworkin -- Barbara Ehrenreich -- George Eliot -- Deidre English -- Susan Faludi -- Eva Figes -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Eleanor Flexner -- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Janet Frame -- Anne Frank -- Miles Franklin -- Marilyn French -- Betty Friedan -- Matilda Joslyn Gage -- Sandra M. Gilbert -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Mary Gordon -- Germaine Greer -- Susan Griffin -- Susan Gubar -- Radclyffe Hall -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Ida Husted Harper -- Molly Haskell -- Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- Lillian Hellman -- Beth Henley -- Bell Hooks -- Karen Horney -- Josephine Humphries -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Luce Irigaray -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Erica Jong -- Julian of Norwich -- Helen Keller -- Margery Burnham Kempe -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Madame de La Fayette -- Nella Larsen -- Harper Lee -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Gerda Lerner -- Doris Lessing -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- Alison Lurie -- Mary McCarthy -- Carson McCullers -- Beryl Markham -- Paule Marshall -- Margaret Mead -- Jean Baker Miller -- Kate Millett -- Margaret Mitchell -- Toni Morrison -- Gloria Naylor -- Faye Myenne Ng -- Anais Nin -- Marsha Norman -- Edna O'Brien -- Flannery O'Connor -- Tillie Olsen -- Elaine Hiesey Pagels -- Ann Petry -- Marge Piercy -- Sylvia Plath -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Annis Pratt -- Barbara Pym -- Jean Rhys -- Adrienne Rich -- Marilynne Robinson -- Phyllis Rose -- Marjorie Rosen -- Christina Rossetti -- Joanna Russ -- Francoise Sagan -- George Sand -- Sappho -- Ntozake Shange -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Elaine Showalter -- Bapsi Sidhwa -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Mona Simpson -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Gertrude Stein -- Gloria Steinem -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Amy Tan -- Megan Terry -- Susan Allen Toth -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Alice Walker -- Marina Warner -- Wendy Wasserstein -- Edith Wharton -- Phillis Wheatley -- Jeanette Winterson -- Christa Wolf -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Jade Snow Wong -- Virginia Woolf. |
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