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Conflict And Colonialism In 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction - Repairing The Past, Repurposing History

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 This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose, and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories.
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Socio-Environmental Crisis In Womenâ€™S Novels And Films In The Americas - The Poetics Of Environmental Destruction, Care, And Insurgency

by Victoria Jara

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 The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action. This book focuses on the overlooked contributions of women filmmakers and novelists, highlighting how their work reveals the connections between environmental dispossession and various injustices related to gender, ethnicity, age, class, and labor.
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Ukrainian Women'S Prose - Unveiling Narratives, Imagery, And Societal Roles Of Women

by Aniela Radecka

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 This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of contemporary Ukrainian women's literature during one of the most transformative periods in the nation's history.
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Maeve Brennan - A Place In The Mind

by Edward Oâ€™Rourke

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 This book offers a critical overview of the effects of space, physical and conceptual, in the works of Irish American author Maeve Brennan. Single and childfree, Brennanâ€™s iconoclastic attitudes to home, family, and womanhood place her work within the canon of radical Irish fiction.
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Nigerian Authors And The Me-Generation - New Shades Of Black

by Eugenia Ossana

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 It underscores Nigerian women authorsâ€™ relatively unknown or dispersed role and acknowledges the emergence of a current Generation called the Me-Generation. Straddling the trope of blackness, three contemporary novels are analysed: My Sister, the Serial Killer, A Small Silence and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi.
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Barbara Bray, A Woman Of Letters - Translator, Radio Producer, Scriptwriter, Critic, And Theatre Director

by Pascale Sardin

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 Barbara Bray was an English translator from French to English. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious minds of the 20th century: Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Losey, Franco Zeffirelli and Marguerite Duras. This literary biography evaluates her contribution to art and literature and the history of ideas.
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Contemporary Literary Perspectives On Female Ageing - Insights From Erica Jong

by Ieva Stoncikaite

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 Contemporary Literary Perspectives on Female Ageing: Insights from Erica Jong offers a nuanced study of contemporary discourses on female ageing as depicted in the oeuvre of American writer Erica Jong. It is the first of its kind to examine the literary universe of a female writer through the lens of longitudinal age studies.
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Women In The First World War And The Russian Civil War - Voices And Representations In Russian Literature

by Olga Simonova

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 Women in the First World War and the Russian Civil War explores how Russian literature and autobiographical writing portrayed nurses, women soldiers and commanders serving in the First World War and Russian Civil War, challenging the traditional perception of war as a masculine domain through the lens of military femininities.
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The Lives And Afterlives Of The Sidney Women Writers

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 The Lives and Afterlives of the Sidney Women Writers charts the multifarious connections between the lives and works of Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney. It brings together essays by renowned experts, showing how the Sidney women did not so much write about their lives as they lived their lives through their texts.
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Aesthetic Of Elizabeth Bowen'S Novels - Light, Atmosphere, Fragmentation, And Sensation

by Diana Hirst

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 This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowenâ€™s â€˜verbal paintingâ€™ in a variety of genres, and to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels. Using the neologism â€˜dyslocutionâ€™ Hirst demonstrates how influences from French syntax and from poetic techniques have contributed to Bowenâ€™s fragmented syntax.
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Ukrainian Women'S Prose - Unveiling Narratives, Imagery, And Societal Roles Of Women

by Aniela Radecka

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 This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of contemporary Ukrainian women's literature during one of the most transformative periods in the nation's history.
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Contemporary Literary Perspectives On Female Ageing - Insights From Erica Jong

by Ieva Stoncikaite

~~209,54€~~ 146,68€ 30% OFF

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 Contemporary Literary Perspectives on Female Ageing: Insights from Erica Jong offers a nuanced study of contemporary discourses on female ageing as depicted in the oeuvre of American writer Erica Jong. It is the first of its kind to examine the literary universe of a female writer through the lens of longitudinal age studies.
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Motherhood And Creativity In Contemporary Self-Life Writing - Writers And Mothers

by Alice Braun

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 It discusses the issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their literary vocation with their duties to their children and it highlights the role of cultural myths in our representations of what being an author and a mother entails.
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Breastfeeding In American Womenâ€™S Literature - Latching On

by Wendy Whelan-Stewart

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 By cataloguing scenes in which characters breastfeed across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this book studies the beliefs, fantasies, and concerns betrayed by their writers, and it charts the many consistent and competing cultural ideologies that accrue over the years and find expression in breastfeeding scenes
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Agent Eve(S) In Moroccan Postcolonial Literature

by Fatimaezzahra Abid

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 This monograph explores female agency in Moroccan postcolonial literature through the works of Fatima Mernissi, Leila Abouzeid, Laila Lalami, Najat El Hachmi, and Aicha Ech-Channa. This will be of interest to scholars of postcolonialism, feminism and Moroccan literature.
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Women In The First World War And The Russian Civil War - Voices And Representations In Russian Literature

by Olga Simonova

~~232,51€~~ 162,76€ 30% OFF

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 Women in the First World War and the Russian Civil War explores how Russian literature and autobiographical writing portrayed nurses, women soldiers and commanders serving in the First World War and Russian Civil War, challenging the traditional perception of war as a masculine domain through the lens of military femininities.
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Conflict And Colonialism In 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction - Repairing The Past, Repurposing History

~~62,18€~~ 43,53€ 30% OFF

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 This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose, and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories.
ENGLISH

The Aesthetic Of Elizabeth Bowenâ€™S Novels - Light, Atmosphere, Fragmentation, And Sensation

by Diana Hirst

~~232,51€~~ 162,76€ 30% OFF

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 This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowenâ€™s â€˜verbal paintingâ€™ in a variety of genres, and to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels. Using the neologism â€˜dyslocutionâ€™ Hirst demonstrates how influences from French syntax and from poetic techniques have contributed to Bowenâ€™s fragmented syntax.
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Becoming Wollstonecraft - The Interconnection Of Her Life And Works

by Brenda Ayres

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 Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft.
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Heroines Of The Postmodern And Their Worlds In Contemporary Historical Fiction

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 This volume focuses on global historical fiction written by and for women, approximately, in the last 30 years. Its key themes include the inner life and experiences of the female historical figure, genre-bending in historical fiction story worlds, and unusual angles that the historical fiction storytelling employs.
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Chalet School Books And The Twentieth Century

by Miles Booy

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 The first full-length analysis of beloved childrenâ€™s series, The Chalet School in the Twentieth Century considers how the long-running series engages with major developments in European history.
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Socio-Environmental Crisis In Women'S Novels And Films In The Americas - The Poetics Of Environmental Destruction, Care, And Insurgency

by Victoria Jara

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action. This book focuses on the overlooked contributions of women filmmakers and novelists, highlighting how their work reveals the connections between environmental dispossession and various injustices related to gender, ethnicity, age, class, and labor.
The Chalet School Books And The Twentieth Century

by Miles Booy

~~232,51€~~ 162,76€ 30% OFF

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 The first full-length analysis of beloved childrenâ€™s series, The Chalet School in the Twentieth Century considers how the long-running series engages with major developments in European history.
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Nigerian Authors And The Me-Generation - New Shades Of Black

by Eugenia Ossana

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 It underscores Nigerian women authorsâ€™ relatively unknown or dispersed role and acknowledges the emergence of a current Generation called the Me-Generation. Straddling the trope of blackness, three contemporary novels are analysed: My Sister, the Serial Killer, A Small Silence and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi.
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