Feminist engagements

Description:

Offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative ,explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century. These charismatic, readable essays range from explorations of feminist humor and chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to examinations of feminists challenges to cultural paradigms. From publisher description.

subjects: Feminism and literature,  Sex differences,  Feminism in literature,  Intellectual life,  Women, White, in literature,  History and criticism,  American literature,  Women authors,  Minority authors,  Women and literature,  Minority women in literature,  Authorship,  Women,  History,  Feminist literary criticism,  American literature, history and criticism,  American literature, women authors,  American literature, minority authors,  Women, united states,  Women intellectuals,  Authorship, sex differences

Places: United States