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Women writers and the city : essays in feminist literary criticism

Title
Women writers and the city : essays in feminist literary criticism / Susan Merrill Squier, editor.
Publication
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1984.

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Additional Authors
Squier, Susan Merrill.
Description
306 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Geschichte 1800-1983
  • English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
  • American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  • French literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Feminist fiction > History and criticism
  • City and town life in literature
  • Feminism and literature > English-speaking countries
  • Women and literature > English-speaking countries
  • Feminism and literature > France
  • Women and literature > France
  • English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Feminism and literature
  • 17.82 literary criticism
  • English literature > Women authors
  • American literature > Women authors
  • City and town life in literature
  • English fiction > Women authors
  • Feminism and literature
  • Feminist fiction
  • French literature > Women authors
  • Women and literature
  • Französisch
  • Frauenliteratur
  • Roman
  • Romanschriftstellerin
  • Schriftstellerin
  • Stadt Motiv
  • Stadt
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Feminist literary criticism
  • English-speaking countries
  • France
  • Großbritannien
  • USA
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography : p. 288-294.
Contents
The city as catalyst for Flora Tristan's vision of social change / Sandra Dijkstra -- Marguerite Duras : women's language in men's cities / Susan Rava -- Return to Mytilène : Renée Vivien and the city of women / Elyse Blankley -- George Eliot and the city : the imprisonment of culture / Nancy L. Paxton -- Every woman is an island : Vita Sackville-West, the image of the city, and the pastoral idyll / Louise A. Desalvo -- Tradition and revision : the classic city novel and Virginia Woolf's Night and day / Susan Merrill Squier -- A wilderness of one's own : feminist fantasy novels of the twenties : Rebecca West and Sylvia Townsend Warner / Jane Marcus -- "A gigantic mother" : Katherine Mansfield's London / Sydney Janet Kaplan -- Reading the city as palimpsest : the experiential perception of the city in Dois Lessing's The four-gated city / Christine W. Sizemore -- Quest for the peaceable kingdom : urban/rural codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood / Sherrill E. Grace -- Willa Cather's lost Chicago sisters / Sidney H. Bremer -- "A laying on of hands" : transcending the city in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf / Carolyn Mitchell -- Another view of the "city upon a hill" : the prophetic vision of Adrienne Rich / Wendy Martin -- Sister to Faust : the city's hungry" woman as heroine / Blanche H. Gelfant -- Literature and the city : a checklist of relevant secondary works / Susan Merrill Squier.
ISBN
  • 0870494155
  • 9780870494154
  • 0870494163
  • 9780870494161
LCCN
83017109
OCLC
  • ocm09827138
  • 9827138
  • SCSB-14170194
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library