Writing women's literary history / Margaret J.M. Ezell.

"By championing the recovery of "lost" women writers and insisting on reevaluating the past, women's studies and feminist theory have effected dramatic changes in the ways English literary history is written and taught." "According to Margaret Ezell, the next step is to...

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Main Author: Ezell, Margaret J. M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1993]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Patterns of Inquiry
  • 1. A Tradition of Our Own: Writing Women's Literary History in the Twentieth Century
  • 2. The Myth of Judith Shakespeare: Creating the Canon of Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century
  • 3. The Tedious Chase: Writing Women's Literary History in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • 4. Memorials of the Female Mind: Creating the Canon of Women's Literature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • 5. Breaking the Seventh Seal: Writings by Early Quaker Women
  • Conclusion: Revelations and Re-visioning.