women and literature

Contains five essays that examine the role of female characters in Roman epic.

Chronicles the lives and works of 100 black women authors writing in the United States between 1900 and 1945.

Contains essays by various authors in which they examine poems of Emily Dickinson in a historical context, discussing how her works reflect the political, social, and economic circumstances of the era in which they were written.

Offers a historical overview of the short stories and novels of Edith Wharton, discussing how her writings transformed American fiction in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

A study of the lives and works of women writers who practiced their art during the Harlem Renaissance of the early twentieth century, focusing on African-American authors Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Presents a critical assessment of the creative achievements of five African-American women poets of the Harlem Renaissance, including Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, Helen Johnson, Gwen Bennett, and Angelina Grimke, and includes discussion of Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God.".

A biography of the African slave who was taken in and educated by a Boston couple and became well-known because of the poetry she wrote.

A collection of critical essays that examine the life and writings of eighteenth-century author Jane Austen, providing a chronology of her life, assessing her six major novels, as well as works not intended for publication, and addressing various aspects of Austen's cultural context.