Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions

by Sandra M. Gilbert

Book Overview

"We think back through our mothers if we are women," wrote Virginia Woolf. In this groundbreaking series of essays, Sandra M. Gilbert explores how our literary mothers have influenced us in our writing and in life. She considers the effects of these literary mothers by examining her own history and the work of such luminaries as Charlotte Bront , Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath. In the course of the book, she charts her own development as a feminist,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393067645
• ISBN13: 9780393067644
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"