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Download or read book Woman s Fiction written by Nina Baym and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on the works of a dozen especially productive and successful writers. Woman's Fiction is a major-work in nineteenth-century literature, reexamining changes in the literary canon and the meaning of sentimentalism, while responding to current critical discussions of 'the body' in literary texts. ''Informative and stimulating. . . . Nina Baym has undertaken a systematic analysis of that nineteenth-century American fiction normally dismissed as at best trivially sentimental. . . . Woman's Fiction offers a fresh perspective on a largely forgotten body of literature.'' -- American Literature''Perceives in the fiction of, by, and for women in the period stated a popular genre that made a particular kind of feminist avowal for the times, one that rejected the concept of helplessness and urged the application of intelligence and courage to trying situations. . . . Baym marshals ample supporting evidence from the outpouring of such fiction.'' - ALA Booklist

Download or read book The Intimate Critique written by Diane P. Freedman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts--above all, "objectivity"--seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life. Grounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume--including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim--respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, Middlemarch to The Woman Warrior, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result--which has been referred to as "personal writing," "experimental critical writing," or "intellectual autobiography"--maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism. Contributors. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar

Download or read book Charles Lamb and His Contemporaries written by Edmund Blunden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was based on lectures delivered by the author and offers a critical sketch of the English essayist Charles Lamb.

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Download or read book The Face of England In a Series of Occasional Sketches written by Edmund Blunden and published by Pomona Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Include: Janus - To Twelfth Night - Jasmine - Trouble at Twilight - Expressions at the Market - The Jays - The British School - The Fan Tod - Young February - Winter Proud - Lent Passes - Wills and Testaments - The Starling's Nest - Theres Nought but Winning and Losing - No Hurry - Great Hurry - The Hop Leaf - Evening Walks - An Ancient Holiday - The Sigh - A Corner of the Meadow - Summer and the Poets - While Fields Shall Bloom, Thy Name Shall Live - Imaginary Work - The Tower - Pastoral No Fable - Art and Nature - Just a Victorian - Floodland - Urn Burial - Young Travellers - The Winter Moth - Fireside Collaboration - Mists and Fogs - The Village Chimneys - The Find - An Ex-Footballer - Battlefield - A Country Prayer - National Biography