The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

By Lorna Sage

Book Overview

This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely project, when so much writing has been rediscovered, reclaimed and republished. There are entries on writers, on individual texts, and on general terms, genres and movements, all printed in a single alphabetical sequence. The earliest written documents in medieval English (the visionary writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) are covered in an historical - and geographical - sweep that takes us up to the present day. The book reflects the spread of literacy, the history of colonisation and the development of post-colonial cultures using and changing the English language. The entries are written by contributors from all the countries covered. The result is a work of reference with a unique feeling for the vitality, wealth and diversity of women's writing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521495253
• ISBN13: 9780521495257
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 706 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 10.0"