This book provides a welcome English translation of a marvelous anthology of women's religious and secular writing, stretching from the visions of the late medieval mystics through the prison testaments of sixteenth-century Anabaptist ...

El libro consiste en una recopilación de artículos desarrollados por especialistas procedentes de diferentes áreas de conocimiento, implicados en la misión de reconstruir el canon literario.

This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France.

Born to a wealthy Puritan family in Northampton, England, Bradstreet was a well-read scholar especially affected by the works of Du Bartas." -- Amazon.com (review for paperback edition)

The contributions gathered in this volume take a fresh look at the medieval history of women, revealing the many faces of female reality during an extremely dynamic period—while individuality was on the rise, new linguistic codes ...

The contributions gathered in this volume take a fresh look at the medieval history of women, revealing the many faces of female reality during an extremely dynamic period—while individuality was on the rise, new linguistic codes ...

A study that discusses the construction of gender and Islamic identities in literary writing by four prominent Indonesian Muslim women writers: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy and Helvy Tiana Rosa.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, b. 1927 and Kamala Markandaya, b. 1924, Indo-English women novelists.

Perry discusses the status of Homer's female characters and analyzes several in depth, including Andromaches, Hecuba, and Helen.