Approaches to the Anglo and American female epic, 1621-1982
By: edited by Bernard Schweizer.
Contributors: Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Epic literature, English -- History and criticism.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Epic literature, American -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Women in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Romancing the epic : Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and literary traditions / Sheila Cavanagh; title: Female heroic action in Frances Burney's Camilla / Elizabeth Kraft; title: Virginia Woolf and the modern epic / Karla Alwes; title: Epic form and (re)vision in Rebecca West's Black lamb and Grey falcon / Bernard Schweizer; title: Gendering Telemachus : Anna Seward and the epic rewriting of Fènelon's Tèlèmaque / Adeline Johns-Putra; title: The female epic and the journey towards self-definition in Mary Tighe's Psyche / Debnita Chakravarti; title: Hear the voice of the (female) bard : Aurora Leigh as a female romantic epic / Peggy Dunn Bailey; title: The daughters of Penelope : tradition and innovation in American epics by women / Alan Jalowitz; title: Revisionary heroism in Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Jenny Goodman; title: Against the fathers' amnesia : Sharon Doubiago, Hard country, and women's epic / Jeremy Downes.