Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982Bernard Schweizer Ashgate, 2006 - 228 Seiten Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This text challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers have successfully adapted the masculine epic tradition to suit their own needs. |
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Lady Mary Wroths Urania and Literary Traditions | 19 |
Female Heroic Action in Frances Burneys Camilla | 37 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aeneid African American Altrocchi American epic Amphilanthus Anniad Annie Allen Annie's artist Aurora Leigh Barrett Browning Barrett Browning's beauty Black Lamb Brooks's Burney Burney's Burrell Burrell's Camilla Clarissa context critics cultural Cupid Dalloway death depiction discussion eighteenth-century Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth Barrett Browning English epic poem epic poetry epic tradition essay Faerie Queene female epic feminine feminist Fénelon's fiction figure gaze gender genre Grey Falcon Gwendolyn Brooks Hard Country Helen in Egypt hero heroic heroism husband King künstlerroman Lamb and Grey literary Literature lover male marriage masculine Milton Mormon mother muse myth mythic narrative novel Odyssey Pamphilia patriarchal Pocahontas poetic political postwar prose Psyche Psyche's quest reader Rebecca West role Romanticism Romney Seward sexual Spenser story suggest Tamsen Telemachus Tighe Tighe's University Press Urania verse vision voice West West's woman women poets women writers women's epic Woolf writing Wroth young