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Contemporary British women writers
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ISBN: 1843840111 9781843840114 Year: 2004 Volume: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer,

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Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within the academy almost exclusively by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. This collection celebrates the range and diversity of contemporary (post-1970) British women writers. It challenges misconceptions about the nature and scope of fiction by women writers working in Britain - commonly dismissed as parochial, insular, dreary and domestic - and seeks to expand conventional definitions of 'British' by exploring how issues of nationality intersect with gender, class, race and sexuality. Writers covered include Pat Barker, A.L. Kennedy, Maggie Gee, Rukhsana Ahmad, Joan Riley, Jennifer Johnston, Ellen Galford, Susan Hill, Fay Weldon, Emma Tennant, and Helen Fielding.

'I have heard about you': foreign women's writing crossing the Dutch border: from Sappho to Selma Lagerlöf
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ISBN: 9065507523 9789065507525 Year: 2004 Publisher: Hilversum Verloren

Revolutions and women's autobiograhy in nineteenth-century France
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ISBN: 9042017015 9004490302 9789042017016 9789004490307 Year: 2004 Volume: 244 Publisher: Amsterdam: Rodopi,

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Here for the first time is a book devoted exclusively to the topic of women’s autobiography in nineteenth-century France. Tracing the rise of autobiography in relation to women’s domestic confinement, Kathleen Hart demonstrates how Flora Tristan, George Sand, and Louise Michel transformed the genre. Inspired by Romantic socialism, each of these remarkable autobiographers links the story of her personal development to socio-historic change. In the wake of the 1830 Revolution, Tristan chronicles social unrest as she relates her progressive transformation into humanity’s "Woman Guide" in Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838). Writing in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution, Sand consolidates her role as a mediator between the rich and the poor in Story of My Life (1854). A legend of the 1871 Paris Commune, Michel establishes herself as the poet and prophet of a mythical Revolution yet to come in her Memoirs (1886). Exploring the dynamic interplay between revolution and feminist acts of self-affirmation, Revolution and Women’s Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France will appeal to scholars of history, French culture, literature, and women’s studies.

Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts
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ISBN: 1283267179 9786613267177 0874214955 087421551X 9780874214956 9780874215519 9781283267175 6613267171 Year: 2004 Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press,

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The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, ""I use the phrase 'faithful transgression' to describe moments in the texts when each writer, explicitly or implicitly, commits herself in writing to trust her own ideas and authority over official religious authority while also conceiving of and depicting herself to be a 'faithful' member of the Church."" Bush recognizes her book as her own act of faithful transgression. Writing it involved wrestling, she states, ""with my own deeply

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