Influence and Inheritance in Feminist English Studies

Informationen zum Autor Marion Shaw, Loughborough University, UKLydia Fellgett, University of East Anglia, UKPrudence Chamberlain, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKNiall Gildea, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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'

List of contents

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'

Product details

• Authors: Clara Hogg Jones
• Assisted by: Hogg (Editor), Hogg (Editor), E. Hogg (Editor), Emily Hogg (Editor), Jones (Editor), C Jones (Editor), C. Jones (Editor), Clara Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781137497499
• ISBN: 978-1-137-49749-9
• No. of pages: 104
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; C, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy