Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982
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Adeline Johns-Putra
Alan C. Jalowitz
American Epic
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Black Lamb
Black Lamb And Grey Falcon
Book III
British and American literature
Calypso's Island
Calypso’s Island
canon formation scholarship
Canto III
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Clarissa Dalloway
Debnita Chakravarti
Donner Party
Elizabeth Kraft
Epic Genres
Epic Tradition
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faerie
Faerie Queene
Female Epic
Female Heroic Action
female-authored epic poetry research
feminist literary criticism
gender and genre studies
genre
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Hard Country
heroic narrative analysis
Jenny Goodman
Jeremy M. Downes
Karla Alwes
Lady Mary Wroth
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Male Epic
Mary Wroth
Peggy Dunn Bailey
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Rachel Vinrace
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Rebecca West
Rebecca West's Black Lamb
Sheila Cavanagh
Spenserian Stanza
Terence Hewet
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Women's Epic
women's literary tradition
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Women’s Epic
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- ISBN 9781138618879
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers have successfully adapted the masculine epic tradition to suit their own aesthetic needs and to express their own heroic literary, social, and historical visions. Bringing the female epic out of the shadows, the contributors rethink generic boundaries to illuminate this heretofore hidden literary practice. The essays range from Mary Tighe to Rebecca West from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Gwendolyn Brooks, and from Frances Burney to Virginia Woolf. Bernard Schweizer's introduction, titled 'Muses with Pens,' connects the trajectory of ideas and influences in the individual essays to demonstrate how each participates in reclaiming for women writers a place in the development of a female epic tradition. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working on issues related to genre, canon formation, and the evolution of female literary authority.
Bernard Schweizer
