Women and Literature: 1779-1982

By Muriel Clara Bradbrook

Focusing on women both as creative writers and as a source of literary inspiration, this authoritative volume chronicles the growing importance of woman's place in the development of literature. Beginning with the novel?a form at which women have excelled?Bradbrook offers a rare insight into the lives and works of several controversial female authors. She also examines the literary revival of drama in the 19th-century, the glittering Belle Epoque in Paris, and provides a personal account of the literary scene at Cambridge in this century, including a highly controversial essay on Queenie Leavis. Two final pieces on Virginia Woolf, which were written at an interval of fifty years, form a distinctive conclusion which opens new critical perspectives and binds this major collection together.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0389202959
• ISBN13: 9780389202950
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 182 Pages