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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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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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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.

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From ancient Greece through the present day, women writers have confronted the male urge to make war by imagining communities in which intuitive bonding among individuals questions and replaces masculinist values of aggression and competition.

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This collection reveals the labours of women printers and publishers, authors and editors, owners and readers in the production and reception of early modern English books.

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Many of us would like to write but find it difficult to begin. This book provides practical suggestions to help all writers give shape and substance to their ideas. There are tips on subjects to write about, ways of approaching them and how to develop writer's skills and critical powers.

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Demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this title argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings.

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Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.

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Presents Father Columba's chapter-by-chapter commentary designed to help others share St Benedict's words and approach to living the Christian life. The book draws on the author's lifetime of living and teaching the Rule, of his mission experience and on his work with the growing Oblate movement.

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These two complementary publications fill a gap in the bibliographic reference shelf by covering historical novels published in the U.S. for both adult and young adult readers.

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This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre, dance, performance and visual art, as well as sporting contests, marriage ceremonies human rights protests, even acts of extreme weather.

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A study of stereotypes and the ways race has been invented and utilized by the West. Using travel literature, figures on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage and material from later writers, it shows how negative elements surrounding blackness were transferred to Native Indians and others.