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A work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers a fresh and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human subjectivity. It posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination.

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Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy together examine languages capacity to acknowledge the inner lives of marginalized figures.

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This selection of essays reveals the response of nineteenth-century women writers to the industrial revolution in Europe.

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This book examines the attitude of the Inklings toward women and thus, sheds new light on the lives and works of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams.

The book examines the male culture of the Inklings and the relation of the literary group to the larger Oxford community.

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Offers a comprehensive overview of women's autobiography. This book provides historical back-ground and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. It is a useful tool for courses in autobiography, literature by women, and women's studies.

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An annotated bibliography of literature, which focuses on issues about women and children and includes four hundred fifty texts published from 1787 to 1900 by and about American textile factory workers.

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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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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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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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"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.