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Bassein examines the pervasive linkage between women's sexuality and death in Western thought and literature and concludes that there is no reasonable basis for much of it.

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Recent revisions of the idea of separate spheres, which governed Victorian scholarship of the past two decades, have provoked considerable interest in both domestic and political fiction of the period and in the political dimensions of domestic life.

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This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body for women's mental and emotional afflictions.

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Part one of this bibliography includes both publications by women during the 17th century and works written by women during the period but published later. The second part lists both works for and about women, some of which were mistakenly attributed to women authors, and serials.

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Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long eighteenth century, this book amplifies their presence in history, finding new ways to explore their transnational encounters and exchanges.

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Thomas Middleton's intense study of betrayal, corruption, lust and violence, "Women Beware Women", is one of the revenge tragedies most commonly studied and performed. This guide offers an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, audio and film versions and dramatic and text adaptations.

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Thomas Middleton's intense study of betrayal, corruption, lust and violence, "Women Beware Women", is one of the revenge tragedies most commonly studied and performed. This guide offers an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, audio and film versions and dramatic and text adaptations.

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This book focuses on the pioneering collaborative work between Native women storytellers and women ethnographers/editors. In this review of the intersubjectively relational methodologies of these women, we see that the most exemplary ethnographies are integrally grounded in and of value to the tribal communities of the Native women storytellers.

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Offering fresh insights and interpretations, this collection of 96 original essays examines the treatment of gender issues in traditional fiction as well as important contemporary works. It includes suggestions for teaching and reading these traditional works in new ways.

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Presents an A-Z of over 350 entries which explore the role of women within Shakespearean drama, how women were represented on the Shakespearean stage, and the role of women in Shakespeare's personal and professional lives. This is a guide to Shakespeare's women for students and scholars of Shakespeare.

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This index identifies some 1,000 female characters who appear in novels, short stories, and plays about the American South. (Authors who wrote about the South but who were not born or raised there are excluded.) All characters are listed alphabetically, followed by a short description of their character traits and/or role.

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Each entry includes a brief biographical narrative, descriptions of individual plays, a selected production history of each drama, information on the availability of both published and unpublished works, a listing of awards won by the playwright, and a selected bibliography of critical articles and reviews.

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Featuring modernised spelling and detailed explanatory notes, this anthology of Civil War-era women poets is perfect for students of English literature and early modern studies. -- .

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"Women Reading Shakespeare", 1660-1900 rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare. Many found in Shakespeare criticism the opportunity to raise a variety of issues, ranging from the use of literary sources to girls' education, the role of women in society, family life, social relationship and ethnic difference.

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Moreover, Shinn analyzes how Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Toni Cade Bambara write out of their consciousness as hyphenated Americans about what is necessary to achieve an integrated self and an integrated society.

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This book, a study of women's writing in fracophone sub-Saharan Africa, redresses the critical imbalance and celebrates the originality of this literature.

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As a result, many other women authors have faded into obscurity.

Through entries written by expert contributors, this reference book provides insights into the life and writings of 54 women authors from German-speaking countries.