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  • Alice James

    A Biography

    by Jean Strouse ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeA comprehensive biography of the visionary writer Alice James, long overshadowed by William and Henry James, her two famous brothers.Alice James is perhaps best known as the sister of the novelist Henry James and of “the father of American psychology” William James. Few readers are familiar with Alice’s life beyond this—until now.Jean Strouse’s illuminating and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters

    Translated by Lizzie Davis ...
    An incisive collection about motherhood and creative life through the lens of mothers—in history, literature, and pop culture—who have abandoned their children.What kind of mother abandons her child? It’s a question that conjures the worst kind of moral judgment. Yet during the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Begona Gómez ... Read more

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  • Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

    A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination—the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne—a superfan and scholar—radically reimagines the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Traveling

    On the Path of Joni Mitchell

    by Ann Powers ...
    Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself..“What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed popular music: of a homesick wanderer forging ahead on routes of her ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Barbara Kingsolver's World

    Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century, Revised Edition

    A revised edition of Linda Wagner-Martin's comprehensive study of the novels, stories, essays and poetry of American author Barbara Kingsolver. Now updated so that coverage runs from Kingsolver's first novel, The Bean Trees, through to her most recent, Demon Copperhead.Author of the only biography of Barbara Kingsolver and of a reader's guide to The Poisonwood Bible, Wagner-Martin has become the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Matrilineal Dissent

    Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History

    Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Matrilineal Dissent features innovative considerations of contemporary autofiction, graphic narratives, and novels by Mizrahi writers as well as middlebrow, Progressive Era, and second-wave ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

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  • Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox

    Challenging the Polarization of South African Discourse

    Series series Routledge Studies in African Literature
    This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely recognized for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid. A pioneer among black African women writers, she is equally respected as storyteller, advocate for children’s education, activist for HIV/AIDS awareness, and champion of indigenous ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Women in American Journalism

    A New History

    by Jan Whitt ...
    In this volume, Jan Whitt tells the stories of women who have been overlooked in journalism history, offering an important corrective to scholarship that narrowly focuses on the deeds of men like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. She shows how numerous women broadened the editorial scope of newspapers and journals, transformed women’s professional roles, used journalism as a training ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Committed

    On Meaning and Madwomen

    A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left ... Read more

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  • Understanding Barbara Kingsolver

    by Ian Tan ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    The most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara KingsolverIn Understanding Barbara Kingsolver, Ian Tan situates Kingsolver's oeuvre in an ecocritical and ecofeminist context and argues that her work puts forward an ethics of difference that informs a more egalitarian vision of the world. Following a brief biography, Tan explores ecocriticism as a ... Read more

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  • Philosophy with Clarice Lispector

    Edited by Fernanda Negrete ...
    Series series Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
    This book examines Clarice Lispector’s body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical questions, which are placed in conversation with a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches.Contributions to this volume engage with the philosophical dimension of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. The book features essays by renowned and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Awakening

    by Kate Chopin ...
    First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman’s emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman’s abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally ... Read more

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  • Little Women: Complete Series – 4 Novels in One Edition: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys

    Louisa May Alcott ended Little Women (1868) with the words “So the curtain falls upon Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Whether it ever rises again, depends upon the reception given the first act of the domestic drama called Little Women.” It was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers demanded to know more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume, Good Wives (1869), ... Read more

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  • Katherine Mansfield: The Complete Works

    This ebook contains Katherine Mansfield's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Judgment

    Essays

    by Lauren Oyler ...
    A Most Anticipated Book of 2024: Elle, The Millions, LitHub, Nylon, BookPage, PureWow, and moreFrom the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world.In her writing for Harper’s, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler ha... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Virginia Woolf and the Lives, Works, and Afterlives of the Brontës

    by Hilary Newman ...
    In her feminist polemic, ‘A Room of One’s Own’, Virginia Woolf famously wrote of the (comparatively recent) literary tradition of female writers: ‘we think back through our mothers if we are women.’ Woolf’s major literary mothers were those women novelists writing during the Victorian period and earlier. Virginia Woolf and the Lives, Works, and Afterlives of the Brontës examines all of Woolf’s ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Bra Wars

    The Struggle Against Decency

    «Bold and engaging, a well-researched look at how clothes can simultaneously reveal and conceal.»(Victoria Bateman, author of Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty)Do you sometimes look at yourself and think, «I can’t wear this without a bra – my nipples are showing»? Have you ever heard someone tell you that «you can’t go out like that», after looking you up and down?This book is a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Objects of Liberty

    British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs

    by Pamela Buck ...
    Series series EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS
    Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British women’s writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that women writers employed the material and memorial object of the souvenir to circulate revolutionary ideas and engage in the masculine realm of political debate. While souvenir collecting was a standard practice of privileged men on the eighteenth-century ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • A Genealogy of the Gentleman

    Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

    Series series EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS
    A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman’s masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional to concepts of performance; and second, that women writers, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Space of Latin American Women Modernists

    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    This book offers a fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space. By analysing the contributions of eight contemporaneous women – four writers and four plastic artists – it reveals how they constructed and conceived of their identities as cultural practitioners through distinctly spatial tactics. Organised around four spatial themes (domestic architecture, the ... Read more

    $86.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alone with Each Other

    Literacy and Literature Intertwined

    Series Book 23 - Studies in Composition and Rhetoric
    This collection of essays by an award winning scholar and poet will appeal to readers from many areas of English, with particular appeal to grad students preparing to teach writing courses."As an admirer of Eli Goldblatt’s original, groundbreaking, and beautifully crafted written work in composition, I think this focused book of his collected essays will be extremely compelling reading for people ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Gulf War Captivity Narratives

    Identity and Ideology

    Series Book 8 - Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media
    The book explores a newly compiled corpus of American Gulf War captivity narratives, their claim to truth and their construction of identity and ideology, as well as concepts of heroism and anti-heroism. Moreover, it probes the texts’ complex authorship, uncovers their role in promoting cultural stereotypes and in propagating violence. Hence, this study is deeply involved with uncovering narrative ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Seventeenth- Century Dutch Painting and Modern Literature

    Series Book 44 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    The book is an attempt at a monographic approach to the problem of the reception of 17th-century Dutch painting in modern literature. However, the author deals not only with contemporary works but also with the texts of 19th-century writers and critics, most often French, who shaped the so-called myth of the Dutch Golden Age. Readers learn the historically conditioned models of perception of 17th ... Read more

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  • Ink and Imagination

    Embark on a captivating into the world of writing with INK AND IMAGINATION:The Author's odyssey. This comprehensive guide is your trusted companion on the winding path from a blank page to a published book.Discover the art of storytelling as you explore the intricacies of character development, plot crafting amd finding your unique writing voice. Whether you're a budding novelist, aspiring poet or ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus