Approaches to the Anglo and American female epic, 1621-1982 /
Schweizer, Bernard,1962-
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and index.
Romancing the epic : Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and literary traditions / Sheila Cavanagh -- Female heroic action in Frances Burney's Camilla / Elizabeth Kraft -- Virginia Woolf and the modern epic / Karla Alwes -- Epic form and (re)vision in Rebecca West's Black lamb and grey falcon / Bernard Schweizer -- Gendering Telemachus : Anna Seward and the epic rewriting of Fénelon's Télémaque / Adeline Johns-Putra -- The female epic and the journey toward self-definition in Mary Tighe's Psyche / Debnita Chakravarti -- "Hear the voice of the (female) bard" : Aurora Leigh as a female romantic epic / Peggy Dunn Bailey -- The daughters of Penelope : tradition and innovation in American epics by women / Alan Jalowitz -- Revisionary postwar heroism in Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Jenny Goodman -- Against the fathers' amnesia : Sharon Doubiago, Hard country, and women's epic / Jeremy M. Downes.
English literature
Epic literature, English
American literature
Epic literature, American
Women and literature
Women in literature.