The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-521-49525-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 706 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1377 g

This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely project, when so much writing has been rediscovered, reclaimed and republished. There are entries on writers, on individual texts, and on general terms, genres and movements, all printed in a single alphabetical sequence. The earliest written documents in medieval English (the visionary writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) are covered in an historical - and geographical - sweep that takes us up to the present day. The book reflects the spread of literacy, the history of colonisation and the development of post-colonial cultures using and changing the English language. The entries are written by contributors from all the countries covered. The result is a work of reference with a unique feeling for the vitality, wealth and diversity of women's writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sage, Lorna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft