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individual plays, a selected production history of each drama, information on the availability of both published and unpublished works, a listing of awards won by the playwright, and a selected bibliography of critical articles and reviews.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

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Women Writers in Russian Literature presents a critical overview of Russian women writers from earliest times to the present, including emigre authors. This collection examines images of women, and reintroduces Russian women writers whose recognition is long overdue.

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Women Writers in Russian Literature presents a critical overview of Russian women writers from earliest times to the present, including emigre authors. This collection examines images of women, and reintroduces Russian women writers whose recognition is long overdue.

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This bibliography of selected writings by 184 women authors from German-speaking countries will be a boon to teachers, students, reference librarians, and library selectors interested in women's literature.

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This annotated bio-bibliographical guide provides long-overdue recognition for women writers of Spain, including special entries on those writing in Catalan and Galician.

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The countries of Spanish America have a history of women's literature that is full, varied, and, until now, undocumented in English. Included are fictional works dealing primarily with women, women's literature, feminism, and the condition of women, with a separate index of anthologies.

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The Artist Embodied examines how the coming-of-age-of-an-artist genre evolved from 1850-1932 in works by American women writers. Specifically, it analyzes how these authors contest patriarchy, engage with tropes of gender, race, and disability, and assert the validity of art created by women artists.

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Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 onwards. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership.