Feminism

Feminism has had, perhaps, the greatest impact of any relatively recent approach to literary theory. It has not only helped create or revive interest in many previously little-known or much-neglected authors but has also raised key issues about gender issues that have influenced numerous other approaches, such as multiculturalism and LGBTQ studies. This volume offers deliberately diverse approaches to women writers, women-centered texts, and feminist methods of interpretation. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Contents In Search of Identity: Woman, the Novel, and VoiceIn Works by Carter, Eliot, Sayers, and Woolf, Reema Faris Critical ContextsThe Mad Ophelia, Frederick Kiefer Introduction to Feminist Criticism: An Overview, Joyce Ahn Female Speakers in Poems by Thomas Campion, Robert C. Evans Feminist Sisters: Margaret Fuller and Ida B. Wellsand their Invitational Rhetoric, Nanette Rasband Hilton  Critical Insights"Old fashioned -- naughty -- everything - ":Uncreating Male and Female in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Nicolas Tredell "Most men are human":Race and Grant Allen's The Type-Writer Girl, Kellie Holzer Names by the Numbers: A Quantitative Close Readingof Mrs. Manson Mingott and Madame Olenska'sShifting Names and Identities in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, Sarah Fredericks                                                                                                                              Revisiting Amy Lowell's World War I Poetry, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick Marilyn Carolyn Davies:An Unknown Poet of the First World War, Robert C. Evans The Woman Alone: Singleness and Survivalin Jean Rhys's Quartet, Nicolas Tredell Double Femininity:Double Indemnity and the Femme Fatale Archetype, Zachariah Pippin The 1998 Film of Toni Morrison's Beloved:A Survey of Critical Reactions, Alexzina Taylor Wilks The Film Version of Amy Tan'sThe Joy Luck Club: A Survey of Critical Reactions, Jordan Bailey Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad:Scholarship, Theatrical Reviews, and Commentary, Robert C. Evans  Resources Additional Works on Feminism Bibliography About the Editor Contributor Index