The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism

Name: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism
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Rachel Carroll Fiona Tolan(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 1. Dezember 2023

498 Seiten

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical, and historical perspectives to the relationship between women's writing and women's rights in British contexts from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Thematically organised around five central concepts-Rights, Networks, Bodies, Production, and Activism-the Companion tracks vital questions and debates, offering fresh perspectives on changing priorities and enduring continuities in relation to women's ongoing struggle for liberty and equality. This groundbreaking collection brings into focus the historical and cultural conditions which have shaped the formation of British literary feminisms, including the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and Empire. From the political novel of the 1790s to early twentieth-century suffrage theatre and contemporary ecofeminism, and from the mid-Victorian antislavery movement to anti-fascist activism in the 1930s and working-class women's writing groups in the 1980s, this book testifies to the diverse and dynamic character of the relationship between literature and feminism.

Featuring contributions from leading feminist scholars, the Companion offers new insights into the crucial role played by women's literary production in the evolving history of women's rights discourses, feminist activism, and movements for gender equality. It will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of women's writing, British literature, cultural history, and gender and feminist studies.

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"Bold and imaginative in its aims, this Companion presents an exciting mix of under-represented writers alongside canonical figures. Both global and local in scope, it is a rare example of a book that foregrounds the internal diversity of Britain and its constituent nations while addressing urgent transnational issues including decolonisation and the environmental crisis." - Professor Kirsti Bohata, Swansea University

"The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism offers a wonderful combination of historical scope, innovative readings of a wide range of texts and a consistently stimulating exploration of literary, cultural and political ideas. It is an indispensable study for anyone interested in how literature and feminism speak to each other." - Mary Eagleton, formerly Professor of Contemporary Women's Writing, Leeds Beckett University

"This wide-ranging collection offers a welcome addition to the scholarship, re-shaping readers' understandings of the rich, diverse traditions of British feminism(s) in literature and charting out paths for literary feminism's future directions." - Anne Schwan, Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies, Edinburgh Napier University

"At a time when Equality Matters for All, Rachel Carroll and Fiona Tolan's timely edited collection asks vital questions and analyses key debates from the late eighteenth century to the present in Britain. Well-known scholars explore the historical and cultural conditions of women's writing and women's rights across the nation. With its sensitive compilation of evolving debates on British feminism the volume is a must read for both beginners and established scholars interested in the woman question and its connectivity to matters related to equality, diversity and inclusion." - Amina Yaqin, Associate Professor in World Literatures and Publishing, University of Exeter

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "Writing Women's Rights - from Enlightenment to Ecofeminism"

Part I: Rights

Like Nobody Else: women and independence in the novels of Charlotte Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft

Romantic Women Travel Writers, Politics and the Environment: An ecofeminist reading of the Swiss landscape

Feminism and Animal Advocacy in the Long Nineteenth Century: Anne Bronte and the 'abuses of society'

"They all revolved about her": Disability, femininity and power in mid-Victorian women's writing

The "quest for harmony"? Utopia, matriarchal communities and feminist self-critique

Jan Morris and the Territory Between: Interrogating nation and normality in contemporary Welsh trans writing

Part II: Networks

"Men shall not make us foes": Charlotte Bronte's letters and her female friendship networks

Transatlantic Feminism and Antislavery Activism: Women's networks, letter writing and literature in the long nineteenth century

Forgotten Feminist Fiction: Netta Syrett, New Woman writing and women's suffrage

"It was little more than a dining club": Examining the epistolary networks of Willa Muir and Helen B. Cruickshank in the founding of Scottish PEN

"What means a frontier?": Nancy Cunard, feminist internationalism and the Spanish Civil War

Part III: Bodies

Reputation of [her] Pen: Retrieving the black female body from the margins of the page and the stage

"We wear the bandages, but our limbs have not grown to them": Eugenic feminism and female economic dependence in Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Lesbian-Trans-Feminist Modernism and Sexual Science: Irene Clyde and Urania

"Beauty in Revolt": Fashioning feminists in Rebecca West and Jean Rhys

"The rule of three": Textual triads, trialogues and women's voices in Sylvia Plath, Jackie Kay and debbie tucker green

HANSON, Clare: Feminism, Eugenics and Genetics: From convergence to contestation

Part IV: Production

"O Happiness, thou pleasing dream, / Where is thy substance found?": Anne Steele's public and private eighteenth-century writings on happiness

"Dearest Norah...": The professional and personal relationships forged between an editor and her authors

Feminist citation in Buchi Emecheta's Early Fiction and Autobiography: Publishing race, class, and gender

"Working with cloth": Materialising women's creative labour in the work of Rosamond Lehmann, Beryl Bainbridge and Joan Riley

"To the sisters I always wanted": Women, writers' groups and print culture in Glasgow, 1980-1988

Mother Country: Leonora Brito writes Wales - black British identity, maternity and memory in the Welsh short story

Part V: Activism

In a Circle with Mary Hays: Writing novels to reform society in the 1790s

In the Advance Guard of Victorian Literary Feminism: The actress as independent woman and social reformer in Eliza Lynn's Realities: A Tale (1851)

"Rice puddings, made without milk": Mother Seacole reforms 'home habits' in the Crimea.

"Your Great Adventure is to report her faithfully": The centring of women's voices and stories in suffrage theatre

A Life Can Be a Manifesto: Connecting Bernadine Evaristo to a history of feminist manifestos

Open Clasp as an example of feminist theatre practice

Protecting the Land, Safeguarding the Future: Ecofeminism, activist women's writing and contemporary publishing in Wales

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