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199 p. Paperback (Fine copy.).

Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

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Zustand: New. This study points to enduring themes about women who acquire political power and/or become public figures. The assessments describe "domineering dowagers", witches and "scheming concubines" in various cultures in ancient, medieval and modern times. Series: Contributions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498. . 1992. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 244 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tradition and how far writers fit into or diverge from the demands of tradition is one of the most debated issues in literary discussion. Gender, however, is not often part of discussions which depend on such questions at the decisiveness of the Modernist break with the Victorian period or whether Postmodernism makes tradition meaningless. By contrast the very existence of a specifically female tradition is still an urgent subject of debate, and it is clear that many nineteenth-century women writers were troubled in their search for literary foremothers. This autobiographical impetus can be located in the work of each of the poets discussed in Tradition and the Poetics of Self Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Bowles Southey, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. An exploration of the self, either in the abstract or in a more closely personal sense, appears in a concern with the craft of poetry and the role of the poet, in a teasing out of language as a marker of a personal encounter with the world, in an adventurous play with genre and a rewriting of myth, and in a bold confrontation with received notions of a woman's place. Adventurousness marks the work of each of these poets and is a central focus of these essays.…