Women's writing from the low countries 1880-2010
Subtitle: an anthology
By: Jacqueline Bel and Thomas Vaessens (eds.).
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9789089641939; 9789048511877
Subjects: Women authors; Dutch literature; Flemish literature; Literatures; History and criticism
Description: This first-of-its-kind anthology offers the English-speaking readers a unique chance to become acquainted with the leading Dutch and Flemish women writers since the 1880s. Covering a representative range of public and private genres from poetry, critical essays, travel literature and political commentary to diaries and journals, the fifty-six texts are arranged chronologically and are accompagnied by brief introductions, chronologies, and brief guides to the authors and works. An important contribution to our understanding of modern European literary canon and the long march of feminist history and literature. (Dutch ed.: "Schrijvende vrouwen", 978-90-8964-216-5).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dutch and English.