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34 produkter
Little Women
Av Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter
Inbunden, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
249 kr
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring …
Female Malady
Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980
Häftad, 1987
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
174 kr
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In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid …
'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'
Joyce Carol Oates
Häftad, 1994
439 kr
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Joyce Carol Oates’s prize-winning story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers and daughters; the sexual victimization of women; …
Modern American Women Writers
Av Elaine Showalter, etc. m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
408 kr
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In this rich examination of some of America’s leading writers, learn how the lives and work of thirty-two women shaped the literature they produced. Based on the acclaimed hardcover edition, this concise revision of Modern American Women Writers is a unique look at a century of women’s …
Little Women
Av Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter
Häftad, 1989
126 kr
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This Penguin Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, Little Women, is edited with an introduction by Elaine Showalter.The charming story of four 'little women' - Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - and their wise and patient mother Marmee, was an instant success when first …
Ethan Frome
Av Edith Wharton, Elaine Showalter
E-bok, 1998
69 kr
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`It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.'' Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, …
Trilby
Av George Du Maurier, Elaine Showalter
E-bok, 1998
117 kr
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''You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!'' First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O''Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of the time alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. Immensely popular for a number …
Sister's Choice
Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing. The Clarendon Lectures 1989
Inbunden, 1991
2599 kr
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Are American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common threads in a coherent tradition? How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writing figured in the history of literature by women in the United States?Drawing on a wide …
Ethan Frome
Av Edith Wharton, Elaine Showalter
Häftad, 2008
93 kr
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`It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.' Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, …
Trilby
Av George Du Maurier, Elaine Showalter
Häftad, 2009
130 kr
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'You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!' First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of the time alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. Immensely popular for a number of …
Hystories
Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media
Häftad, 1998
588 kr
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This provocative and illuminating book charts the persistence of a cultural phenomenon. Tales of alien abduction, chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War syndrome, and the resurgence of repressed memories in psychotherapy are just a few of the signs that we live in an age of hysterical epidemics. As …
Between Friends
Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Av English Showalter, Elaine Showalter
E-bok, 2022
45 kr
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The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship ''Touching and inspiring'' RACHEL COOKE, Observer ''Lively, perceptive'' MIRANDA SEYMOUR, Literary Review ''A beautiful collection'' DAISY …
Between Friends
Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Av Elaine Showalter, English Showalter m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
156 kr
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The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship'Touching and inspiring' RACHEL COOKE, Observer'Lively, perceptive' MIRANDA SEYMOUR, Literary Review'A beautiful collection' DAISY DUNN, Sunday …
Between Friends
Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Av Elaine Showalter, English Showalter
Inbunden, 2022
294 kr
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These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship.'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn, Sunday Times'Completely fascinating' Rachel Cooke, Observer'Lively, perceptive and immaculately edited' Miranda Seymour, Literary Review'A moving, …
Hysteria Beyond Freud
Av Sander L. Gilman, Helen King m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
652 kr
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"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it …
Hysteria Beyond Freud
Av Elaine Showalter, G. S. Rousseau m. fl.
E-bok, 1993
457 kr
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"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it …
Hysteria Beyond Freud
Av Sander L. Gilman, Helen King m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1123 kr
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"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it …
Teaching Literature
Häftad, 2002
459 kr
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Teaching Literature is an inspirational guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education. Written by leading academic, prolific author and cultural journalist, Elaine ShowalterOriginal and provocative reflections on teaching literature in higher educationEncourages …
A Literature of Their Own
British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
Häftad, 1998
502 kr
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First published in 1977, this book includes a chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.
Inventing Herself
Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage
E-bok, 2001
239 kr
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Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter''s brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present. With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, …
Jury Of Her Peers
American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
E-bok, 2009
40 kr
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Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O''Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni …
Faculty Towers
The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
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"I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice," Elaine Showalter writes, "once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not too easily identified in either of these guises . . . although I can tell you that I preferred …
Alternative Alcott
Av Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter
Häftad, 1988
495 kr
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The discovery in recent years of Louisa May Alcott's pseudonymous sensation stories has made readers and scholars increasingly aware of her accomplishments beyond her most famous novel, Little Women, one of the great international best-sellers of all time. What has been recovered throws new light …
Daughters of Decadence
Women Writers of the Fin De Siecle
Häftad, 1993
495 kr
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At the turn of the century, short stories by -- and often about -- "New Women" flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form and courageous in its candid representations of female …
Little Women
Av Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter
E-bok, 1989
141 kr
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Louisa May Alcott''s iconic novel-the beloved portrait of a nineteenth-century New England family in wartime The classic story of the March family, Little Women has been adored for generations. Now in a vibrant new deluxe edition with an introduction by Jane Smiley and a cover by Julie Doucet, the …
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Häftad, 2010
331 kr
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Hystories
Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
Häftad, 2013
156 kr
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Showalter explores the integral components of hysteria and identifies the disorder as being more universal than it is stereotypically known. Instead of the assumption that hysteria largely roots from the Victorian sexual repression and is commonly a female disorder, Showalter recognises parallels …
