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An international guide to women's writing throughout the ages, containing over 5000 fully cross-referenced entries. The essays introduce women's writing by area and period, followed by a comprehensive alphabetical reference section which includes authors, texts and up-to-date bibliographies for further research. The guide ranges from Sappho to Chinese writers post-Tiananmen Square, from South-East Asia to Romania and Bulgaria.
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Bloomsbury guide to women's literature / edited by Claire Buck
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1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 1171 pages: portraits; 25 cm. Contents: Greek and Roman antiquity / Richard Hawley -- Medieval Britain / Gopa Roy -- Britain 1500-1800 / Sue Wiseman -- Nineteenth-century Britain / Kathryn Burlinson -- Twentieth-century Britain / Laura Marcus -- Ireland / Ailbhe Smyth -- France : the middle ages to 1700 / Elizabeth Woodrough -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France / Alex Hughes, Jennifer Birkett -- Twentieth-century France / Lyn Thomas -- Germany, Austria and Switzerland / Agnes Cardinal -- Spain / Stephen M. Hart -- Italy / Ursula Fanning -- Porutgal / Darlene J. Sadlier -- Modern Greece / Maria Moore -- The Netherlands and Flanders / Olga van Marion -- Scandinavia / Karen Klitgaard -- Eastern Europe / Joanna Labon -- Russia / Charlotte Rosenthal, Mary Zirin -- Early North America / Sharon Harris -- Nineteenth-century US / Carol Klimick Cyganowski -- Twentieth-century US / Mara McFadden -- Canada / Aritha van Herk -- Latin America / Luiza Lobo -- The English-speaking Caribbean / Susheila Nasta -- French Antilles / Vivienne Liley -- Australia / Shirley Walker -- New Zealand and Oceania / Lydia Wevers -- East Africa / Phyllis Pollard -- Southern Africa / Dorothy Driver -- West Africa / Jane Bryce -- Turkey and the Arab middle east / Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud -- Israel / Risa Domb -- The Indian subcontinent / Maya Jaggi -- South-east Asia / Koh Tai Ann -- China / Zhu Hong -- Japan / Noriyo Hayakawa, Akiko Ogata -- Critical approaches / Catherine Belsey. Subjects: Women authors; Dictionaries. Women in literature; Dictionaries. Women authors Bio-bibliography. Literature women writers encyclopaedias. Literature Women authors History and criticism. Women in literature Dictionaries. Feminism and literature. Genre: Dictionary. Encyclopedia. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations. Seller Inventory # 337162
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Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature; from Sappho to Atwood, Women's Writing Through the Ages and Throughout the World
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Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. from Sappho to Atwood, Women's Writing through the Ages and Throughout the World / Edited by Claire Buck
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