Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Book Overview

This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative Fishkin explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century. These charismatic, readable essays range from explorations of feminist humor and chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to examinations of feminists' challenges to cultural paradigms. Fishkin s lively voice engages readers with the American past and leaves a bold stamp on the literary landscape.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230615945
• ISBN13: 9780230615946
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"