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Approaches to the Anglo and American female epic, 1621-1982

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Approaches to the Anglo and American female epic, 1621-1982 / edited by Bernard Schweizer.
Publication
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.

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Additional Authors
Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
Description
x, 228 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Epic literature, English > History and criticism
  • American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Epic literature, American > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > English-speaking countries
  • Women in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and index.
Contents
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 Fénelon's Télémaque / Adeline Johns-Putra -- The female epic and the journey toward 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 postwar heroism in Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Jenny Goodman -- Against the fathers' amnesia : Sharon Doubiago, Hard country, and women's epic / Jeremy M. Downes.
Call Number
JFE 06-9246
ISBN
0754654869 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2005026814
OCLC
  • 61694730
  • vendorOCM61694730
Title
Approaches to the Anglo and American female epic, 1621-1982 / edited by Bernard Schweizer.
Imprint
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and index.
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Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
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JFE 06-9246
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