Influence and Inheritance in Feminist English Studies

ISBN-13: 9781137497499 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 96 str.

Clara Jones; Emily Hogg

Opis

This collection explores how new directions in feminist literary study might be informed by the work of the past. It offers a snapshot view of new feminist research in the field today and traces the influence of the substantial feminist inheritance in English Studies through six distinct, individual pieces of rigorous and innovative new work.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Marion Shaw – 'Old Feminism, New Feminism' 2. Clara Jones – 'Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and the Problem of Inherited Wealth' 3. Lydia Fellgett – 'Amazons and Afterwards: Correspondence as Feminist Practice' 4. Emily J. Hogg – 'Progress and Feminist Literary Criticism: The 'New Eras' of Nadine Gordimer' 5. Prudence Chamberlain 'The Inheritance of Irony and Development of Flippancy' 6. Niall Gildea – 'Roger Scruton's Daughters: Feminism and Parasitism in the Idea of a University'

O autorze

Marion Shaw, Loughborough University, UK Lydia Fellgett, University of East Anglia, UK Prudence Chamberlain, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Niall Gildea, Queen Mary, University of London, UK