feminism and literature

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work A Room of One's Own, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work A Little Princess, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Ellen Gilchrist.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Carolyn G. Heilbrun.

Provides analysis of American playwrights whose works have a strong feminist message. Covers four eras, including feminist dramatists of colonial America, the suffrage plays of the early women's movement, the social protest dramas of the 1920s and 1930s, and the plays advocating equal rights from the late 1960s onward.

Discusses theories of postmodernism, feminism, and postcolonialism in relation to Japanese literature and analyses the fictional and critical works of four twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japanese writers--Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki, and Karatani K?jin.

Offers biographical information about early twentieth-century author Virginia Woolf along with an analysis of her 1929 feminist essay "A Room of One's Own.".