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Title:

Approaches to the Anglo and American female epic, 1621-1982 / edited by Bernard Schweizer.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 228 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Epic literature, English--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Epic literature, American--History and criticism.
Women and literature--English-speaking countries
Women in literature.

Other Authors:

Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780754654865 (alk. paper)
0754654869 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61694730

LCCN:

2005026814

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)