Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader
7 best books like Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader (Mary Eagleton): Crescendo, Vathek, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, Lighthousekeeping, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature, A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë to Lessing, The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories
| Author | Becca Fitzpatrick |
| ISBN | 1416989439 |
Nora Grey's life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn't pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it. A mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He's more elusive than ever (if that's...
| Author | William Beckford |
| ISBN | 0192836560 |
An odd book, and not a completely successful one. I cannot deny it a wealth of ironic observation and an elegant style, but I believe the author indulges his hobbies and obsessions--his Orientalism, his ephebophilia, his loathing of his mother and other termagants--to an extent that distorts...
Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
| Author | Lundy Bancroft |
| ISBN | 0425191656 |
In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft--a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men--uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship.
He says he...
| Author | Jeanette Winterson |
| ISBN | 0156032899 |
Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century...
| Author | Jonathan Culler |
| ISBN | 0415289890 |
A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative,...
| Author | Elaine Showalter |
| ISBN | 0860682854 |
Readers of this new, enlarged edition of the classic feminist study of British women novelists will find themselves delighted by Elaine Showalter's astute and acerbic critical intelligence. Showalter is one of the few scholars who can make her readers rush to their bookshelves to refute her point,...
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories
| Author | Margaret Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0140240187 |
And more than that - sometimes women love women. Like Queen Victoria, the world has preferred to believe that sex between women is impossible, resulting in a long silence between the writings of Sappho and the flowering of talent produced by feminism and the sexual revolution. Lesbian writing has come...
