Womanhood in Anglophone literary culture : nineteenth and twentieth century perspectives / / edited by Robin Hammerman.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hammerman, Robin.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvii, 372 p. :; ill.
• Other title: Cabinets of the curious: readers in the nineteenth century American archive and the search for a story-like life /; Women's history, women's empowerment: Lydia Maria Child's Ladies Family Library Series /; Cinderella revisited: women writers and the stepfamily /; The hidden harlot: alternative ideals of womanhood in nineteenth century women's fiction /; Victorian women poets and the art of collaboration /; "That idyl of the June, that girls' gospel" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Browning's Aurora Leigh /; Cuban femininity and national unity in Louisa May Alcott's moods and Elizabeth Stoddard's "Eros and Anteros" /; Bad girls of the VAD: World War I fallen women in the forbidden zone /; Modernism, maternity, and the radical women poet /; Riders of the new wave: the feminist science fiction of Le Guin,Russ, and Tiptree /; Embodying the muse, opening pandora's box: Post-Modern counter narratives of female creativity and community /; Sacred frontiers: looking for fissures to construct an alternate feminist subjectivity in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood /; Who I be I grow up / here? : literary recuperations of Harlem's streets /; Womb fiction: late twentieth century challenges to the woman as womb paradigm /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9781847183507 (hard); 1847183506 (hard); 9781443809191 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Robin Hammerman.