The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English /
Sage, Lorna.
The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English / Lorna Sage ; advisory editors, Germaine Greer, Elaine Showalter. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. - viii, 696 p. : ill., 1 map ; 26 cm.
Publisher description: This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely project, when so much writing has been rediscovered, reclaimed and republished. There are entries on writers, on individual texts, and on general terms, genres and movements, all printed in a single alphabetical sequence. The earliest written documents in medieval English (the visionary writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) are covered in an historical - and geographical - sweep that takes us up to the present day. The book reflects the spread of literacy, the history of colonisation and the development of post-colonial cultures using and changing the English language. The entries are written by contributors from all the countries covered. The result is a work of reference with a unique feeling for the vitality, wealth and diversity of women's writing.
0521495253 (hardback) 0521668131 (pbk.) 0521668131 (pbk.)
98050778
English literature--Women authors--Dictionaries.
Women and literature--English-speaking countries--Dictionaries.
Women and literature--Great Britain--Dictionaries.
PR111 / .S24 1999
820.9/9287/03
The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English / Lorna Sage ; advisory editors, Germaine Greer, Elaine Showalter. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. - viii, 696 p. : ill., 1 map ; 26 cm.
Publisher description: This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely project, when so much writing has been rediscovered, reclaimed and republished. There are entries on writers, on individual texts, and on general terms, genres and movements, all printed in a single alphabetical sequence. The earliest written documents in medieval English (the visionary writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) are covered in an historical - and geographical - sweep that takes us up to the present day. The book reflects the spread of literacy, the history of colonisation and the development of post-colonial cultures using and changing the English language. The entries are written by contributors from all the countries covered. The result is a work of reference with a unique feeling for the vitality, wealth and diversity of women's writing.
0521495253 (hardback) 0521668131 (pbk.) 0521668131 (pbk.)
98050778
English literature--Women authors--Dictionaries.
Women and literature--English-speaking countries--Dictionaries.
Women and literature--Great Britain--Dictionaries.
PR111 / .S24 1999
820.9/9287/03