1st Edition

Image and Power Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century

By Sarah Sceats, Gail Cunningham Copyright 1996
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Image and Power is an important work of literary and cultural criticism. This collection of essays focuses on some of the major issues addressed by women's writing in the twentieth century, concerning genre, subjectivity and social and cultural expectations, issues which in the past have been regarded from an essentially male perspective. The text introduces women writers whose novels have been... Read more
1. Image, Usurping the male: women writing in `male' genres, Endorsing the female: women's `own' literary space   2. Power, Private power, Public power  3. Essay on Women and ideas

Biography

Sceats, Sarah; Cunningham, Gail