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Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
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Include books by the same authorSor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith
Octavio Paz · 560 pages
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Melanie Rehak · 364 pages
In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties, and emerged as beloved by girls today as by their grandmothers. Rehak tells the behind-the-scenes history of Nancy and her groundbreaking creators. Both Nancy and her "author," Carolyn Keene, were i
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
Julia Briggs · 527 pages
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Carol J. Clover · 265 pages
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. According to that view, the power of films like Halloween and Texas Chain Saw Massacre lies in their ability to yoke us in the killer's perspective and to make us party to his atrocities. In this book Carol Clover argues that sadism is actually the lesser part of t
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Harriet Reisen · 392 pages
A biography of Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) that provides a solid description of the life and thoughts of the author most famous for "Little Women" (1968).
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
Julia Kristeva · 219 pages
"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others ... [Powers of Horror is] an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse. The sections on Céline, for example, are ind
The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination
Ursula K. Le Guin · 304 pages
H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
Michel Houellebecq · 150 pages
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Christopher Bram · 372 pages
Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee.
Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications
Marlene Wagman-Geller · 313 pages
A fascinating look at the stories behind the dedications of 50 literary classics.Mary Shelley dedicated Frankenstein to her father, her greatest champion. Charlotte Bronte dedicated Jane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray for his enthusiastic review of the book's first edition. Dostoyevsky dedicated The Brothers Karamazov to his typist-turned-lover Anna Grigoyevna. And, as this collection's title
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Marion Meade · 340 pages
In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s. Capturing the jazz rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era, Meade gives us Parker, Fitzgerald, Millay, and Ferber, tr
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
Joseph Loconte · 235 pages
"The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis"--Amazon.com.
The Sadeian Woman
Angela Carter · 154 pages
Angela Carter turns concepts and assumptions about love and sex inside out with an original examination of Sade's ideas.
Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
Sarah Wendell, Candy Tan · 291 pages
With insider advice for writing romances, fun games to discover your inner Viking warrior, and interviews with famous romance authors, shows that while some romance novels are silly -- maybe even tawdry -- they can also be intelligent, savvy, feminist, and fabulous, just like their readers.
The Golden Thread
David Clare, Fiona McDonagh, Justine Nakase · 344 pages
This two-volume edited collection covers three hundred years of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Volume One looks at the period from 1716 to 1992, exploring such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
Kevin Birmingham · 424 pages
For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English language was illegal to own, sell, advertise or purchase in most of the English-speaking world. James Joyce's big blue book, "Ulysses, " ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of "Ulysses "was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. All of the
The Lady and Her Monsters
Roseanne Montillo · 322 pages
"A ... blend of literary history, lore, and early scientific exploration that traces the origins of the greatest horror story of all time"--Dust jacket flap. Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
Jessa Crispin · 240 pages
"When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender, "--Amazon.com.
Three Masters; Balzac, Dickens, Dostoeffsky
Stefan Zweig · 238 pages
My Life in Middlemarch
Rebecca Mead · 293 pages
"A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch-- and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories."--From publisher description. "Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the gr
Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
Robert Schnakenberg · 304 pages