Research Catalog

Title

Women's voices and genealogies in literary studies in English / edited by Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Gilberta Golinelli.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crisafulli, Lilla Maria
• Golinelli, Gilberta

Description

vii, 213 pages; 22 cm

Subjects

• English literature > Women authors
• Genealogy in literature
• Women in literature
• English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The "voice" of women writers in the development of literary studies / Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Gilberta Golinelli -- Part I: Theory, methodology(ies) and new-readings. The heritage of women's genealogy: Sisterhood and solidarity / Vita Fortunati -- Gender (still) matters: A genealogy of feminist subjectivities / Raffaella Baccolini -- "I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess": Genealogies, re-visions of the body, and feminist figurations / Rita Monticelli -- Part II: Experimenting with gender and genre: Subversive forms of women's resistance and agency. Alternative readings as practice for feminist methodologies. A case study: Aphra Behn / Gilberta Golinelli -- "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda": Meta-discourses and female genealogies in late eighteenth-century English novels / Serena Baiesi -- The history play as strategy of resistance and agency in women's romantic drama / Lilla Maria Crisafulli -- "A woman of enlightened understanding": Politics and feminism in Mary Darby Robinson's literary production / Valentina Pramaggiore -- Part III: Female writing and writing about the female: Critical debates and recent interpretations. "You must forget to be a woman": Constructions of the female gender in early modern English drama / Josmary Santoro -- Feminist genealogies and the History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave / Valeria Morabito -- A case study of The emigrants and The fugitive: The poetry of the exiles in Charlotte Turner Smith's and Mary Darby Robinson's literary works / Wilmarie Rosado Pérez -- Impertinent daughters in imperial genealogies: Doris Lessing's autobiographical writings / Cristina Gamberi -- A geocritical exploration of "racial" and gendered spaces in contemporary science fiction / Eleanor Drage -- The first life of Mary Wollstonecraft: Godwin's perplexing memoirs / Janet Todd -- Contributors -- Index of names.

Call Number

JFD 19-4800

ISBN

• 1527530280
• 9781527530287

OCLC

1088542925

Title

Women's voices and genealogies in literary studies in English / edited by Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Gilberta Golinelli.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Crisafulli, Lilla Maria, editor.

Golinelli, Gilberta, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-4800