Anthology British Women Writers : from the Middle Ages to the present Day

Janet Todd

Literature & Fiction

Pandora

This is a gripping story of passion, murder and politics in the Kingston family at the heart of the Irish Rebellion in 1798.

Rebel Daughters : Ireland in Conflict 1798

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Gardners Books

The Secret Life of Aphra Behn

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

The author offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary American literary critics. She argues that this approach rightly links the political concerns of feminist criticism to the uncovering of female voices embedded in history. She reconstructs the development of feminist literary history from the 1960s through to the present day, highlighting the central themes as well as the strengths and weaknesses. She then examines the debate between American feminist critics, on the one hand, and feminist critics inspired by the work of French theorists such as Kristeva, Irigaray and Cixous, on the other. She defends feminist literary history against its critics and casts doubt on some of the uses of psychoanalysis in feminism. She also considers the debate with men and assesses the relevance of academic analyses of gender, masculinity and homosexuality. This book should be of interest to students of English literature, modern languages, women's studies and cultural studies.

Feminist literary history: A defence

History & Criticism

Polity in association with B. Blackwell

Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it. This book takes a more balanced approach to the work of four writers and concludes that only eighteenth-century Britain, with its understanding of public verse, common truth, and the utility of poetry, could have invented the English hymn as we know it.
The early hymns sought to inspire, teach, stir, and entertain congregations. The essential purpose shifted slightly in line with each poet's setting and in accord with the poetic thought of his day. For Isaac Watts's Independents, powerful traditional imagery was appropriate. Charles Wesley's enthusiasm proceeded from and served the spirit of the revival. John Newton's prophetic vision particularly suited the impoverished community at Olney. William Cowper's masterful handling of formal conventions and his idiosyncratic personal hymns reflect his poetic, rather than clerical, vocation.
Despite such temporal variations, the great poetry by each man displays themes of general Christian relevance, suggesting common experience, showing normative features of the genre, and bearing a complex and intriguing relationship to secular literature.

English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century

Arts & Photography

Madeleine Marshall

Music

The University Press of Kentucky

Mary Wollstonecraft

Taylor&Francis

The Treasures of Jane Austen

Seven Oaks

A richly detailed, powerful biography of the first major feminist in England, highlighting her intellectual and sexual dilemmas, her glamorous and tumultuous life and loves. The combination of her works with her efforts to live a revolutionary inner and outer life has no equal.

Phoenix_Press

Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle

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