Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982Bernard Schweizer Routledge, 8. feb. 2019 - 238 strani Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers have successfully adapted the masculine epic tradition to suit their own aesthetic needs and to express their own heroic literary, social, and historical visions. Bringing the female epic out of the shadows, the contributors rethink generic boundaries to illuminate this heretofore hidden literary practice. The essays range from Mary Tighe to Rebecca West from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Gwendolyn Brooks, and from Frances Burney to Virginia Woolf. Bernard Schweizer's introduction, titled 'Muses with Pens,' connects the trajectory of ideas and influences in the individual essays to demonstrate how each participates in reclaiming for women writers a place in the development of a female epic tradition. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working on issues related to genre, canon formation, and the evolution of female literary authority. |
Vsebina
Lady Mary Wroths | |
Female Heroic Action in Frances Burneys | |
Virginia Woolf and the Modern Epic | |
Epic Form and ReVision in Rebecca Wests | |
Anna Seward | |
The Female Epic and the Journey Toward | |
Tradition | |
Revisionary Postwar Heroism in Gwendolyn | |
Sharon | |
Bibliography | |
Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982 Bernard Schweizer Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2006 |
Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982 Bernard Schweizer Predogled ni na voljo - 2020 |
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
Aeneid African American Altrocchi American epic Amphilanthus Anniad Annie Allen Annie's artist Aurora Leigh beauty Black Lamb Brooks's Burney Burney's Burrell Camilla Cantos Clarissa context critics cultural Cupid Dalloway death depiction discussion eighteenth-century Elizabeth Barrett Browning English epic poem epic poetry epic tradition essay Faerie Queene female epic feminine feminist Fénelon's fiction figure gaze gender genre Grey Falcon Gwendolyn Brooks Hard Country Helen in Egypt hero heroic heroism husband ideology King künstlerroman Lamb and Grey literary Literature lover male marriage Mary Tighe masculine Milton Mormon mother muse myth mythic narrative novel Odyssey Pamphilia patriarchal Pocahontas poetic political postwar prose Psyche Psyche's quest Ramsay reader Rebecca West role Romanticism Romney Serbian Seward sexual Snow Covered Wagons Spenser story suggest Tamsen Telemachus Tighe Tighe's University Press Urania verse vision voice West West’s woman women poets women writers Woolf writing Wroth young