Women's Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing

   The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David

   By Alice McLean

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Black Women in New South Literature and Culture

   By Sherita L. Johnson

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Frances Trollope

   Beyond “Domestic Manners”

   Edited by Tamara Wagner

   Long overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances Trollope is almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her impressively prolific career as a writer, however, covered and...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

   By Kalenda C. Eaton

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...

   Published October 7th 2012 by Routledge
5. Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

   Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860

   By Judith Lowder Newton

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed idea of "women’s proper sphere". This...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Female Romantics

   Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

   By Caroline Franklin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women’s writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment ‘...

   Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity

   By Karen Leick

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   This book is a cultural history of Stein’s rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature

   Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950

   By Sam Lopez

   Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

   This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
9. Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology

   By Kenneth Cervelli

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere),...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Where No Man has Gone Before

    Essays on Women and Science Fiction

    Edited by Lucie Armitt

    Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

    How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics? What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the...

    Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge