In Her Own Write: 20th Century Women's Fiction

The author indicates how readers can identify in 20th-century women's fiction what is subversive and what supports the status quo of women's unequal position vis a vis men. To illustrate this new way of reading fiction, she analyzes a broad range of women's fiction and relates her readings to social issues of the day. Some comparisons with men's fiction are made, and a list of essential though often neglected novels by women is included.

Literature & Fiction

Breen, Jennifer

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Brief, manageable, and affordable, the books in the Contexts series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associations, and wider cultural climate of the main literary periods. As well as offering a background in relevant social history, these texts include selected extracts from original documents to give a full flavour of the period in question. The Romantic period was a turbulent time in which England changed from a primarily agricultural society to a modern industrial nation. The French Revolution, economic cycles of inflation and depression, and an enlarged and increasingly restless working class, created circumstances for profound social and political change. Looking at poetry and fiction against the "spirit of the age," this book discusses issues of science and art, psychology and the supernatural, revolutionary politics and social vision, satire and morality, and at the same time provides an introduction to the work of Austen, Blake, Burns, Byron, Keats, Radcliffe, Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth.

Romantic Literature (Contexts)

Noble, Mary

Reference

Bloomsbury Academic

A thoroughly annotated selection of the poems and prose of Wilfred Owen, which includes later non-war poems and prose such as the well known Preface and Choice of Letters.

Wilfred Owen: Selected Poetry and Prose (Routledge English Texts)

British & Irish

Routledge

Part of the Everyman series which includes an introduction, chronology of the authors' lives and times and summary of theme and style. The books also contain an annotated bibliography, selected notes and criticism. This presents poems by women of letters and working-class women.

Women Romantic Poets

Poetry

Everyman Paperback Classics

Alongside the famous names of Romanticism many women, from intellectuals to dairymaids and cooks, published poetry. Poets such as Hannah Moore, Joanna Baillie and Elizabeth Bentley may not be household names; yet they depict Nature alongside the domestic life they considered a fitting subject for poetry, finding an everyday subject for Romanticism's everyday language.

Women Romantic Poets 1785-1832: An Anthology (Everyman's Library)

Everymans Library

This anthology gathers a variety of poems in differing styles by thirty women, chosen from the more than five hundred in print in the Victorian age. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and the Bront sisters are a few of the poets here represented tackling the age-old subject of love from a satirical woman's perspective and exploring the radical challenges of their "New Womanhood."

Victorian Women Poets 1830-1901: An Anthology (Everyman's Library)

Including the writings of Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More and Dorothy Wordsworth, this anthology chronicles women's struggle for expression in the realm of men.

Women Romantics 1785-1832: Writing in Prose (Everyman Library)

Breen, J.

Outlines the history of Britain's involvement in India, from the formation of the East India Company in 1600 for the purpose of Indonesian trade and its emergence as a military power to India's independence in 1947.

England and India (People at Odds)

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Chelsea House Pub

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In Her Own Write: 20th Century Women's Fiction

In Her Own Write: 20th Century Women's Fiction

Romantic Literature (Contexts)

Wilfred Owen: Selected Poetry and Prose (Routledge English Texts)

Women Romantic Poets

Women Romantic Poets 1785-1832: An Anthology (Everyman's Library)

Victorian Women Poets 1830-1901: An Anthology (Everyman's Library)

Women Romantics 1785-1832: Writing in Prose (Everyman Library)

England and India (People at Odds)