1st Edition
Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982
Edited By Bernard Schweizer
Copyright 2006
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers have successfully adapted the masculine epic tradition to suit their own aesthetic needs and to express their own heroic literary, social, and... Read more
Contents: Introduction: muses with pens. Part 1 British Women's Prose Epics: 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. Part 2 British Women's Verse Epics: Gendering Telemachus: Anna Seward and the epic rewriting of F lon's T maque, 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. Part 3 American Women's Verse Epics: The daughters of Penelope: tradition and innovation in American epics by women, Alan C. 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. Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Bernard Schweizer
