Approaches to the Anglo and American female epic : 1621-1982
Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius. This collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers have adapted the masculine epic tradition to suit their own aesthetic needs and to express their own heroic literary, social, and historical visions.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Romancing the epic : Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and literary traditions / Sheila Cavanagh
Female heroic action in Frances Burney's Camilla / Elizabeth Kraft
Virginia Woolf and the modern epic / Karla Alwes
Epic form and (re)vision in Rebecca West's Black lamb and Grey falcon / Bernard Schweizer
Gendering Telemachus : Anna Seward and the epic rewriting of Fènelon's Tèlèmaque / Adeline Johns-Putra
The female epic and the journey towards self-definition in Mary Tighe's Psyche / Debnita Chakravarti
Hear the voice of the (female) bard : Aurora Leigh as a female romantic epic / Peggy Dunn Bailey
The daughters of Penelope : tradition and innovation in American epics by women / Alan Jalowitz
Revisionary heroism in Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Jenny Goodman
Against the fathers' amnesia : Sharon Doubiago, Hard country, and women's epic / Jeremy Downes