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  • Sonnets of Louise Labé

    by Louise Labé ...
    Translated by Alta Lind Cook ...
    Series series Heritage
    The love sonnets of Louise Labé of Lyons and the gilded legend of her life in the early years of the French Renaissance have appealed to the imagination of four centuries.Printed here beside the text of the 1556 edition, the translations of the sonnets by Alta Lind Cook follow closely the original version and admirably retain its sweep and movement, its simplicity and melody. The rhyme scheme of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Lesya Ukrainka

    Translated by Vera Rich ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological. Breaking the thematic conventions of populist literature, she sought difficult and complex motifs and gave them original treatment: themes such as the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Collected Poems

    Series series Heritage
    This volume established Isabella Valancy Crawford as one of Canada's principal poets. Coupled with an introductory collage of viewpoints and reactions to her work by James Reaney its provides a vivid glimpse into the literary past of this country.Although her poetry reflects the patterns of her time, Isabella Valancy Crawford was able to accept the raw and vigorous Canadian landscape on its own ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Angéline de Montbrun

    A Psychological Romance of Quebec

    by Laure Conan ...
    Translated by Yves Brunelle ...
    Series series Heritage
    Laure Conan was the first woman novelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d'analyse. As she refused to have her true identity revealed, the author of the preface to her book, Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, made a point of confirming that it was indeed a woman hiding behind the pen-name. Her daring in writing a psychological novel was 'forgiven' because she was a woman, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • OEuvres complètes

    by Louise Labé ...
    Series series Textes Littéraires Français
    Voici l'édition que l'éminent spécialiste de Maurice Scève et de Louise Labé prépare depuis plusieurs années. On y trouvera tous les textes de la Belle Cordière - vers et prose - accompagnés de notes et de commentaires fort approfondis. Aucun problème de sources, aucune allusion, obscurité, variante, n'est resté sans explication. Cette édition reflète l'état le plus à jour de l'histoire et de la ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Margaret Atwood

    A Feminist Poetics

    by Frank Davey ...
    Series series The New Canadian Criticism Series
    Margaret Atwood’s writing, according to Davey, reveals not only an extraordinary facility with language, but also a deep mistrust of it as something shaped by an instrumental and largely male culture. Her language directs its readers to a hidden level of itself – unspoken, symbolic, gestural – and away from denotative meaning. In discussions of her poetry, fiction, short stories, and criticism, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Peaceful Army

    Margaret Preston on Australian women artists; Miles Franklin on suffragist Rose Scott; Eleanor Dark on Caroline Chisholm; Kylie Tennant on the future ... Like mirrors reflecting mirrors this book shows the precarious position of women in a country’s history. First published in 1938, the youngest of the contributors, Kylie Tennant, just before her death in 1988 reflected again on the intervening ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Woman and the Lyre

    Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome

    by Jane M Snyder ...
    Series series Ad Feminam
    Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C.E and ending with Egeria in the fifth century C.E., Snyder profiles ancient Greek and Roman women writers, including lyric and elegiac poets and philosophers and other prose writers. The writers are allowed to speak for themselves, with as much translation from their extant works provided in text as possible. In addition to giving readers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dorothy Parker

    What Fresh Hell Is This?

    by Marion Meade ...
    Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating womenIn this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • After the Fall

    The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow

    A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow.The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Surviving the Storm: A Memoir

    A poignant memoir of life under Communism by one of China's established women writers. Not only did her heroic intellectualism suffer under the restrictions of a repressive regime, but both her passionate devotion to women's rights and her fervent adherence to the precepts of Marxism were tested under often heartbreaking conditions. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers

    One of the most fascinating comments often made about Dorothy l. Sayers is that she wrote “real” novels. Catherine Kenney considers why Sayers mysteries tend to strike astute readers this way, and in so doing, suggests her place not only in the history of detection, but in the larger tradition of the English novel which she admired. Gaudy Night, for example, bears striking similarities to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • House/Garden/Nation

    Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista’s electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled the end of one transition and the beginning of another, with Woman somewhere on the border between the neo-liberal and marxist projects. It is such transitions that Ileana Rodríguez takes up here, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    Her Poetics of Loss

    by Susan McCabe ...
    Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work—poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material—to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in the act of writing. Susan McCabe argues that Bishop counters modernist claims for an autonomous art ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction

    Edited by Glenwood Irons ...
    Series series Heritage
    Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the exception of Christie's Miss Marple, the names of female detectives and their authors have only recently gained wide attention through the popularity of Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton, and Sara Paretsky ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words

    by Joan of Arc ...
    Translated by Willard Trask ...
    Series series Joan Books
    The only available source for the exact words of Joan of Arc, compiled from the transcript of her trials and rearranged as an autobiography by Willard Trask. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

    by Eavan Boland ...
    In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work.Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Writings by Western Icelandic Women

    There are two Icelands. One is the island in the North Sea, occupied since before the arrival of the Vikings. The other is "Western Iceland," the communities throughout North America, settled by Icelandic immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, and still maintaining strong ties to their mother country. While the prominent role of women in the development of Western Iceland has long been ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers

    by Janice Brown ...
    The impact of Dorothy L. Sayer’s work is a powerful one. She was a gifted artist who worked in many genres and addressed many issues, but her achievement goes beyond creative skill and variety of range. What she consistently communicates about Sin—the basic problem of human existence—provides a core of content which evokes, as she believed artistic work should, a spiritual “response in the lively ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mappings

    Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter

    In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Making Men

    Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative

    Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked—and relocated—to the United States. Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Ayn Rand Reader

    by Ayn Rand ...
    The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Latin American Women Dramatists

    Theater, Texts, and Theories

    “This thoughtfully crafted . . . insightful and informative [anthology] elucidates an overlooked, essential component of the Latin American literary canon” (Choice).Latin American Women Dramatists sheds much-needed light on the significant contributions made by these pioneering authors during the last half of the twentieth century. Contributors discuss fifteen works of Latin-American playwrights, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women's Lives

    The View from the Threshold

    Series series Alexander Lectures
    Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. In ... Read more

    $25.99 USD