TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sage,Lorna
AU  - Greer,Germaine
AU  - Showalter,Elaine
TI  - The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English
SN  - 0521495253 (hardback)
AV  - PR111 .S24 1999
U1  - 820.9/9287/03 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Dictionaries
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Great Britain
N2  - 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
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