Feminist Literature & Theory

United by a common focus on writing by and about women, this collection of contemporary essays, spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, emphasises some of the problems of theory and practice posed by writing as a woman and by women’s representation in literature. The subjects of indiv..

First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. Judith Newton analyses novels such as Fanny Burney’s Evelina, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, in order to demonstr..

First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. Judith Newton analyses novels such as Fanny Burney’s Evelina, Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, in order to demonstr..

The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended...