Highlights
45 women writers on writing
Part 1, “Women Writers: On Writing,” represents 6 centuries of historical documents about female literary creativity—from Christine de Pizan to Eavan Boland.
42 theory selections
Part 2, “Theory: On Gender and Culture,” focuses on the theoretical debates in the half century since Simone de Beauvoir articulated the idea of “alterity” in 1949. Texts by 42 scholars and theorists explore changing literary representations of women, the relationships between gender and genre, and the impact of cultural studies—postcolonial studies, race and ethnic studies, queer theory—on contemporary views of literature in English.
6 casebooks on major works and topics
Part 3, “Practice: Representative Readings and Analyses” includes clusters of contemporary critical interpretations of the following key literary works and topics: Medieval Women, Aphra Behn and Oroonoko, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Emily Dickinson, the Harlem Renassiance, and Sylvia Plath. The casebooks can be assigned to complement and enrich students’ reading of the selections in The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.
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